Quotes by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.