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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

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

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America
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Arnold Toynbee
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We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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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

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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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