America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin