“The contact of civilisations has always been, and will always continue to be, a ruling factor in human progress and failure.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
The Western Question in Greece and Turkey (Primary source)
The Western Question in Greece and Turkey: A Study in the Contact of Civilisations is a detailed, largely firsthand account of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 and its wider political context.
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“Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“History, in the objective meaning of the word, is the process of change; in the subjective meaning, it is the study of how and why one situation changes into another.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“Technology is, of course, only a long Greek name for a bag of tools; and we have to ask ourselves: What are the tools that count in this competition in the use of tools as means to power?”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“The statesmen miscalculated again. Their fellow-countrymen had the means to carry out their policy but not the will; their pawns had the will without the means.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill Disputed“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“All our science lacks a human side.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I am always in love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source