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> [“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/society-is-the-total-network-of-relations-between-human-beings-the/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

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## More by Arnold Toynbee

> [I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/i-don-t-believe-a-committee-can-write-a-book-it-can-oh-govern-a/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

> [“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/some-historians-hold-that-history-is-just-one-damned-thing-after/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

> [“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/society-is-the-total-network-of-relations-between-human-beings-the/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

> [Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/compassion-is-the-desire-that-moves-the-individual-self-to-widen-the/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

> [“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/militarism-has-been-by-far-the-commonest-cause-of-the-breakdown-of/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

> [“Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-toynbee/schism-in-the-soul-schism-in-the-body-social-will-not-be-resolved-by/)

[Arnold Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-toynbee/)

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