Arnold Toynbee Quotes

Arnold Toynbee Quotes

Arnold Toynbee Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Arnold Toynbee:

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."

"We have been God like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves."

"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

"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."

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