Top 20 Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

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

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

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

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

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.

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.