Arnold ToynbeeThinkers

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

A City is a human settlement whose inhabitants cannot produce, within the city-limits, all of the food that they need for keeping them alive.

A City-state is a state in which there is only a single city or in which a single city is so superior in terms of population and power to any minor cities that may be included in its territory that this one city's paramountcy in the state is indisputable.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Death is the price paid by life for an enhancement of the complexity of a live organism's structure.

Familiarity is the opiate of the imagination.