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Civilization Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
- Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose…
- Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and…
- Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
- Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
- Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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- The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
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- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
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