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Facts about Arnold J. Toynbee SummaryArnold J. Toynbee was a famous Historian from United Kingdom, who lived between April 14, 1889 and October 22, 1975.Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Arnold, under the main topics: History, Society. Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Clive James, Anne Baxter, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Casey Stengel, Aldous Huxley, Ngo Dinh Diem, Adlai Stevenson, Joe Namath, Thornton Wilder, Vince Lombardi, Margaret Lee Runbeck, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Øystein Stray Spetalen Famous quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee (20)  "The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land"
"The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue"
"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God"
"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"
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it"
"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills"
"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead"
"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility"
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice"
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair"
"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves"
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