Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: cultural-decay
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeAmerica is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: humor
The only real struggle in the history of the world...is between the vested interest and social justice.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeIt 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 Joseph ToynbeeTags: goals
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeThe art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: pedagogy
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: history peace war militarism
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: cities
Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes, as I believe, that one of the most distinctive characteristics of Man is the he is partially free to make choices.... Encounters are the occasions in human life on which freedom and creativity come into play and on which new things are brought into existence.
Arnold Joseph ToynbeeTags: 1889-1975 english-historian
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