Arnold J. Toynbee

Quotes

• “Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the ...”
• “As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders ...”
• “Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a defin...”
• “Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they ...”
• “The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are to...”
• “Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral st...”
• “A life which does not go into action is a failure.”
• “History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”