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Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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Donna Grant

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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Donna Grant

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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Donna Grant

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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Donna Grant

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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Donna Grant

"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."

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Donna Grant

"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."

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Donna Grant

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

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Donna Grant

"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."

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Donna Grant

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."

History

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"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."

History

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land."

Lie

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"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."

Life

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

Civilization

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"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."

God

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

Work

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"A life which does not go into action is a failure."

Life

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."

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Arnold J. Toynbee
"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."

Religion

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