More From 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."
- "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."
More In History
- "When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on."― John Malkovich
- "Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn’t hurt your appreciation of the painting."― Jodie Foster
- "The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."― Henry Ward Beecher