I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits… - Arnold J. Toynbee
Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits…
- Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. - Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence be… - Arnold J. Toynbee
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence be…
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or late… - Arnold J. Toynbee
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or late…
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if … - Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if …
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 sho… - Arnold J. Toynbee
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 sho…
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want… - Arnold J. Toynbee
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want…
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as i… - 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 i…
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves. - Arnold J. Toynbee
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
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