Arnold Toynbee Short Quotes

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Arnold Toynbee
I can not "think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil."

Arnold Toynbee
Huddled together in our little earth we gaze with frightened eyes into the dark universe.

Arnold Toynbee
The right method in any particular case must be largely determined by the nature of the problem.

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

Arnold Toynbee
Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present.

Arnold Toynbee
It is a great law of social development that the movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance.

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To the capitalists we appeal to use their wealth, as many of their order already do, as a great national trust, and not for selfish purposes alone.

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It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what is of lasting importance to the human race.

Arnold Toynbee
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.

Arnold Toynbee