As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death;… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist.… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
