Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
British - Historian April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975

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

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

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.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Arnold J. Toynbee