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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
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
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
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
— 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
What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.
— Kevin McCarthy
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn't worry about being likeable; they're doing something amazing that very few people can do.
— Ted Alexandro
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
— Arnold Joseph 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
Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.
— Arnold Joseph 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
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.
— Arnold J. 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
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
— Arnold J. Toynbee