India is the central link in a chain of regional civilizations that extends from Japan in the far north-east to Ireland in the far northwest. Between… - Arnold J. 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.

Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal.

It is now plain that in tracing the life of our Western Society backwards behind 775 we begin to find it presented to us in terms of something other than itself-in terms of the Roman Empire and of the society to which that Empire belonged. It can also be shown that any elements which we can trace back from Western history into the history of that earlier society may have quite different functions in these two different associations.