Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

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

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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