"Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate……" — Arnold J. Toynbee
"Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse"
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43 Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
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Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait…
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in…
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The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's…
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the…
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Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but…
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The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot…
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It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending…
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Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or…
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and…
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Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of…
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Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in…
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
— Norman Borlaug
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
— Warren Buffett
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
— Margaret Chan
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
— Julia Child
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The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
— Hillary Clinton
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