Arnold Toynbee Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Arnold Toynbee
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Inspirational Quotes
“If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.”
Politics / government Quotes
“Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.”
Universe Quotes
“America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”
Miscellaneous Quotes