“We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.” MenHas BeensWholeSocialAnimalTechnologyShareMankindProduceDirectStructureFruitNotionForgottenProducers Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.” WorldHas BeensMatterHardActorsModernStageWestModern History Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.” Has BeensAnimalEnvironmentPlantPopulationCynicalRabbitsBreedingPlants And AnimalsOverpopulationWorld PopulationReproductive HealthEnvironmental StewardshipDomesticated Animals Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.” Has BeensTwoWarCausesKnownClassCasesModernCivilizationTwentiesWesternCombinationHistorian Book:Civilization on Trial Source: Civilization on Trial
