Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Time
  • Work
  • End

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Career
  • You

• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  

  Kate Millett
  • God
  • Mean
  • Mental Illness

• My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Society
  • Speak
  • Organization

• When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Gym

• The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Life
  • America
  • Poetry

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Relationship

• We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I believe you have to have balance in your life.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Balance

• Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

  

  James Gleick
  • Long
  • History
  • Nature

• I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Time
  • Education

• The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Words
  • Wisdom
  • Deeds

• A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Money
  • Fighting

• Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee