Arnold J. Toynbee

Quotes

• “"When God made Baluchistan, he laughed."”
• “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.”
• “I don’t believe a committee can write a book. ... It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps. But I don’t believe it can write a book.”
• “[T]he equation of religion with belief is rather recent.”
• “India is the central link in a chain of regional civilizations that extends from Japan in the far north-east to Ireland in the far northwest. Between these two extremities the chain sags down southwards in a festoon that dips below the Equator in Indonesia.”
• “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.”

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