To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilization
Quotations by Arnold Toynbee
Quotes :
- Henry Steele Commager – history "For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory - condemned forever to make the same discoveries that have been made in the past, invent the same techniques, wrestle with the same problems, commit the same errors; and condemned, too, to forfeit the rich pleasures of recollection. Indeed, just as it…
- "The new law is an unconstitutional attempt to… "The new law is an unconstitutional attempt to prevent us from using an accepted form of product promotion with adult smokers." - Darryl R. Marsch
- "True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in… "True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin." - Charles Baudelaire
- "Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he’s… "Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II'" - Craig Kilborn