Arnold Toynbee Quotes

The campaign of anti-Islamic slander was so successful that to this day some textbooks in European and American schools refer to Muhammad as having epilepsy, the Qur'an as being copied from Bible, Muslim armies forcing conversions on people (by the sword), and Islam as being against science and learning. All of these are quite untrue, and enlightened Western authors from Arnold Toynbee and Bertrand Russell to Yvonne Haddad and John Esposito have been dispelling these myths on book after book for decades; nevertheless, the message hasn't reached the masses, who still believe numerous myths concerning Islam. ~ Yahiya Emerick

They tried to substitute for Christianity a body of dogmas called "dialectical materialism." As Orestes Brownson pointed out in 1849, and as Arnold Toynbee has also written, communism was really a kind of caricature of Christianity, borrowing certain of its moral affirmations, imitating its dogmas, and even appropriating some of its phrases. This made communism all the more dangerous: for the superficial similarities between Christian morality and the pretended Soviet morality sometimes deluded Americans and people in other free states into thinking that communism had high moral aspirations. ~ Russell Kirk

The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese
and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. ~ Eric Hoffer

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ~ Arnold Toynbee

I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S. Eliot, which so perfectly fitted the mood of the young people between the two wars. I also find much more benevolence towards humanity in younger historians than there was in Spengler or in Toynbee. Still, it is not difficult to sense the disgust of the intellectuals at the new prosperous working class, 'with their eyes glued to the television screen,' who have become indifferent to radical ideas. ~ Dennis Gabor

The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a civilization depends, ultimately bring about the destruction of that civilization. Arnold Toynbee observed that a civilization begins to break down when there is "a loss of creative power in the souls of creative individuals," and, in time, the "differentiation and diversity" that characterized a dynamic civilization, is replaced by "a tendency towards standardization and uniformity." The emergence of a "universal state," and increased militarism, represent later stages in the disintegration of a civilization. ~ Butler Shaffer

Your body is baggage you carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip. -Arnold Glasow ~ Brian Mills

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long. ~ Arnold Mindell

I'm a long way from being evicted [at the age of 14], but I'll never forget it. I'll never forget the feeling. I'll never forget my mom crying and I'll never forget the thought I had: 'Well the only thing I can do is just go build my body,' because the men who were successful that I knew of - Stallone, Arnold, Bruce Willis - they were men of action. ~ Dwayne Johnson

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot. ~ Melanie Brown

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. ~ Matthew Arnold

Beck's smile is intense and sincere, a smile with, not a smile at. Mom used to say you could tell a lot by the way a person treats the innocent, and Walt is nothing if not innocence personified. ~ David Arnold

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives. ~ Warren Beatty

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see my friends just lying there, dead. I try to pay my respects to my friends when they're alive. ~ Arnold Palmer

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That's why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that's not always the reality of it. ~ Tichina Arnold

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song. ~ George Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ~ Matthew Arnold

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! ~ Matthew Arnold

On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou. ~ Matthew Arnold

But no matter what you do in life, selling is a part of it. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory. ~ Arnold Palmer

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf. ~ Arnold Palmer

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ~ Matthew Arnold

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football. ~ Tom Arnold

Fifteen years later, in 1601, Thomas Wright's The Passions of the Minde was devoted to showing man how wretched he had become through his inability to control his passions. This study, designed to help man know himself in all his depravity, emphasised sin rather than salvation, claiming that the animal passions prevented reason, rebelled against virtue and, like 'thornie briars sprung from the infected roote of original sinne', caused mental and physical ill health.20 Despite its punitive message, the book went into further editions in 1604, 1620, 1621 and 1628, suggesting that the seventeenth-century reader was a glutton for punishment. ~ Catharine Arnold

Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name. ~ Matthew Arnold

When she wasn't leaking from one end, she was leaking from the other spewing white fluids from her mouth whenever she belched, as if she were auditioning for a remake of The Exorcist. ~ Judith Arnold

The moment you're born you're done for. ~ Arnold Bennett

While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today. ~ Tichina Arnold

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes. ~ Arnold Schoenberg

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another. ~ Arnold Lobel

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman. ~ Len Wiseman

I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. ~ Polly Toynbee

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am empty, cleaned the fuck out. All that's left is a fierce hunger for flight. ~ David Arnold

The most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Meat may go up in price - it has done - but books won't. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses - these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges. ~ Arnold Bennett

Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material. ~ David Letterman

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife. ~ Iris Murdoch

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! ~ Matthew Arnold

If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much ... I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it. ~ Arnold Palmer

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer. ~ Arnold Palmer

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women. ~ Elana K. Arnold

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming ~ Matthew Arnold

Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. ~ Matthew Arnold

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~ Arnold H. Glasow