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Arnold J. Toynbee
British
Historian
Born:
Apr 14
,
1889
Died:
Oct 22
,
1975
Civilization
Civilizations
God
History
Life
Man
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Antony Beevor
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Linda Colley
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Norman Davies
Simon Schama
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
History
State
Nineteen
States
Collapsed
Moral
Civilizations
Reached
Them
Appeared
Now
Twenty-Two
United
United States
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
World
Islam
Virtue
Muslims
Propagation
Outstanding
Between
Contemporary
Crying
Contemporary World
Islamic
Achievements
Happens
Race
Consciousness
Need
Extinction
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
Today
Survival
Better
Become
Society
Considerably
Ourselves
Prospects
Tigers
Were
Than
Human
Against
Race
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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Overcome
Enthusiasm
First
Practice
Imagination
Definite
Carrying
Only
Takes
Ideal
Aroused
Intelligible
Storm
Apathy
Plan
Things
Second
Two
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee
God
Man
Power
Own
Later
Worships
Had
He
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Always
His
Decide
Whether
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
History
Civilization
Voyage
Condition
Movement
Harbor
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Believe
Wills
Civilization
Civilizations
Because
Die
Organism
Product
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Arnold J. Toynbee
God
History
Vision
Creation
Move
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Evil
Think
Circumstances
Would
Advertising
Any
Any Circumstances
Which
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