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

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 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

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

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

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

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

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

- Arnold J. Toynbee