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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
— Polly Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
— Polly Toynbee
The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.
— Polly Toynbee
The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ...
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.
— Philip Toynbee
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.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
— Arnold Toynbee
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.
— Polly Toynbee
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
— Polly Toynbee
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
— Polly Toynbee
