And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in…

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it…

— Sigmund Freud

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

— Anonymous

“We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement. By the wary independence and aloofness of his dim…

— Henry David Thoreau

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

— Mark Hopkins

“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the Civilizing Process.…

— Steven Pinker

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

— Hugh Hefner

Wine is a civilizing agent.

— Clifton Fadiman

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

— Kenneth Clark

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing,…

— Mary Blakely

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality.

— John Trudell

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

— Walter Kirn

I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look at Steven…

— Martin Amis

“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed,…

— James C. Scott