On a stationary military frontier between a civilization and a barbarism, time always works in the barbarians' favour; and, besides this, the barbari… - 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 universe self.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour. No known civilization has, ever reached the goal of civilization yet. There has never been a communion of saints on earth. In the least uncivilized society at its least uncivilized moment, the vast majority of its members have remained very near indeed to the primitive human level. And no society has ever been secure of holding such ground as it has managed to gain in its spiritual advance.