Arnold Toynbee

"The future will not be determined by those who have the most weapons but by those who have the most wisdom."

"To understand another culture, one must first understand one's own."

"The tragedy of modern life is that we have forgotten how to live in community."

"Every epoch has its own form of madness, and we are blind to our own."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have nothing."

"In the end, we will not be remembered for what we owned but for what we gave."

"The Western world has exchanged the soul for the machine."

"To change society, one must first change the stories that society tells itself."

"The most important lesson of history is that most people do not learn from history."

"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action despite fear."

"The future is not written; it is imagined into being."

"To live authentically is to live contrary to the expectations of your civilization."

"The greatest discoveries are made by those willing to question everything."

"A society without art is a society without a soul."

"The accumulation of knowledge without wisdom leads to destruction."

"In every human heart there is a yearning for transcendence."

"The role of the intellectual is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Time moves faster when we are moving backward in our thinking."

"To be alive is to be in constant rebellion against the forces that would make us less than human."

"The greatest power is the power to say no."

"History is the sum of things that could have been otherwise."

"To love your enemy is to transcend the human condition."

"The only true revolution is a change in consciousness."

"The more we know about the past, the less certain we become about the future."

"A leader is someone who is willing to be wrong in public."

"The meaning of life is found in the pursuit of meaning, not in meaning itself."

"To understand war, one must understand the peace that preceded it."

"The greatest tragedy is a life lived without passion."

"In the presence of truth, all pretense becomes impossible."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine what has never been."