“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
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… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
“Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
“Society is the total network of relations between human beings. The components of society are thus not human beings but relations between them.” — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
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. — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
“Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
“Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism),… — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share
