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All Quotes by author - Arnold J. Toynbee
" A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. "
Walking
Trap
Powers
" A life which does not go into action is a failure. "
Failure
Does
Action
" America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. "
Dog
America
Small
" 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. "
Practice
Storm
Imagination
" 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. "
Freedom
God
Nature
" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "
Civilization
Voyage
Movement
" Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. "
Die
Civilizations
Suicide
" History is a vision of God's creation on the move. "
Move
Vision
History
" History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. "
You
Action
History
" I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. "
Advertising
Think
Evil
" I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. "
Die
Believe
Product
" 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. "
Life
Goal
Important
" 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. "
History
United States
Them
" Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. "
Power
Own
Man
" The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. "
Rather
Recent
Religion
" 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. "
World
Virtue
Race
" 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. "
Race
Better
Today
" The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. "
Like
Whales
Taken
" The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. "
Play
Accomplishment
Work
" To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. "
Intelligence
Civilization
Leisure
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