Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
From Arnold J. Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
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.
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