I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Category Archive: Arnold J. Toynbee
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.