“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.” ThinkingHumansWholeAgePoliticalRaceGenerationsCenturyConflictPracticalsInventionObjectivesErasRememberedWelfareHuman RaceTwentieth CenturyFuture GenerationHuman Society Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.” HumansWealthCommonCuttingPenaltiesFellowshipBirthrightOutlawAffluenceMembershipHuman FamilyCommon Experience Author: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 later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.” MenHumansChildrenProblemNationsParentWorshipSolutionsSooner Or LaterHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsPower Of GodChildren And Parents Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.” MenHumansChildrenTurnsChoicesCoursesIndividualHuman BeingsMen And WomenSeriesGods WillEncountersHuman HistoryFree Choice Author: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 shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.” HumansChoicesFreedomHuman BeingsResponsibilityShouldersFreedom Of ChoiceShuffleFreedom And Responsibility Book:Civilization on Trial Source: Civilization on Trial
“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.” InspirationalHumansMotivationalTodayAnimalRaceSocietyPerspectiveSurvivalAngerHuman RaceTigersProspectsThis Society Author: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 between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.” KnowsWorldNeedsHumansHeartMayChildrenEnoughMotherSocialHuman BeingsSecretWifePossibilityHusbandPracticalsMutualHusband And WifeSocial LifeMistrustSellersBuyersMother And Child Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.” IfsWayHumansEndsSelfMomentsTogetherSpiritGrowsRaceAttitudeClearDangerousBecomingDestructionSalvationWesternAncientIndianHuman RaceHinduismChaptersHuman HistorySelf Destruction Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.” HumansActionCompassionSelf EsteemFieldsDegreesAchievementEthicsDignityAnd LoveGreedEsteemEthicalOur ActionsHuman DignityAggressiveness Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.” IfsHumansChildrenEndsScienceFatherMoralVirtueMaterialsWesternExtraordinaryTriumphOur TimeHuman HistoryMoral Virtues Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.” BelieveHumansMadePastTurnsChoicesFreedomHuman BeingsDestinySeriesGenuineFreedom Of ChoiceChoices Made Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
