Quotes by : Arnold J. Toynbee

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

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility....

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work....

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers....

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached....

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and....

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.