Cases Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender…

— Gangaji

“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

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of…

— Cicely Saunders

“Give people divergent, irreconcilable, and untestable notions about what happens after death, and then oblige them to live together with limited resources. The result…

— Sam Harris

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is…

— Alain de Botton

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

— Stanislav Grof

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle