Suicide Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee Download Open image “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” — Arnold J. Toynbee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suicide
“As historian Arnold Toynbee (1889–1975) noted, civilizations rarely die simply from external assault; they are first hollowed out by internal moral decline. “Civilizations,” Toynbee… — Carrie Gress 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
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The tragedy of suicide is not death. It is what dies within us whilst we live. — Joanne Reay Copy Share Image
Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — V. S. Naipaul 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
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If I died If I died tonight would you notice? Would you even care? If I died tonight would you find it humorous? Would… — Me Copy Share Image
My bodies cold lips are blue why did I do this because of you? I feel the earth below me like a pillow under… — Nik Is Dead Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I lay on my floor crying again¦ shaking. Searching for inner strength and coming up empty. My eyes burned and my mouth was dry… — Nathan Daniels Copy Share Image
“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in… — Mary Beth Miller Copy Share Image
“No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
