Quote by Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Environment
Read Quote

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee

Category:
America
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss

Category:
Civilization

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau

Category:
Civilization

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

I cant see whats wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and whats bad news about being rewarded for assuming that. – Steven Moffat

Category:
Intelligence

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. – William Ralph Inge

Category:
Education

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think shes very cool. Shes out there and shes involved. – Sandra Bernhard

Category:
cool

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if youre game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation. – Joshua Micah Marshall

Category:
legal