Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 229 |
| AUTHOR: | Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975) |
| QUOTATION: | Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | |
| SUBJECTS: | Civilization |