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Arnold Joseph Toynbee : A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Robert J Ringer : " Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Oliver Wendell Holmes : " For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Dorothy Parker : " Trapped, like a trap in a trap. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf : " "They are trapped in Umm Qasr. They are trapped near Basra. They are trapped near Nasiriyah. They are trapped near Najaf. They are trapped everywhere." " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Spike Hawkins : " My shoe has caught a Pig I am a Pig Trap " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Margaret Mead : " The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Jane Kramer : " Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Joseph F Smith : " In your hands or the hands of any other person, so much power would no doubt be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet! " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Lee Child : " Friday. Five o'clock in the afternoon. Maybe the hardest time to move unobserved through a city. Or, maybe the easiest. Because at five o'clock on a Friday nobody pays attention to anything. Except the road ahead. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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David Mitchell : " Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will… The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be. " # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " History is a vision of God's creation on the move." # Vision # God # History and Historians

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question." # Community # Experience # Communication

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake." # Goals # Happiness # Life and Living

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education." # Words # Education # Science and Scientists

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " 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." # Compassion # Desire # Individuality

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " 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" # Mothers # Virtue # Leaders and Leadership

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man." # Cities and City Life # Power # Prophecy

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " A life which does not go into action is a failure." # Failure # Action # Life and Living

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " Angkor is not orchestral; it is monumental. It is an epic poem which makes its effect, like the Odyssey and like Paradise Lost, by the grandeur of its structure as well as by the beauty of the details; an epic in rectangular forms imposed upon the Cambodian jungle." # Poetry and Poets # Beauty # Life and Living

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Arnold Joseph Toynbee: " Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor." # Civilization # Goals # Life and Living

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