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Arnold J. Toynbee
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Angkor is not orchestral; it is monumental. It is an epic poem which makes its effect, like the Odyssey and like Paradise Lost, by the grandeur of its structure as well as by the beauty of the details. an epic in rectangular forms imposed upon the Cambodian jungle.
Arnold J. Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold J. Toynbee
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.