As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
From Arnold J. Toynbee
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
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