Top 12 Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quotes

#1. Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

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#2. The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

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#3. The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

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#4. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

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#5. Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

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

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#9. A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

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#10. The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults ...

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#11. Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.

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

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