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Arnold J. Toynbee
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Arnold J. Toynbee
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.