I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Arnold Toynbee quote 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.
Arnold Toynbee quote Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Arnold Toynbee quote Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.
Arnold Toynbee quote Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Arnold Toynbee quote America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee quote Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold Toynbee quote 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.
Arnold Toynbee quote Biography
British historian 1889 - 1975
