The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe. — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“One of the most impressive civilizing offensives of the 1990s came from African American communities, who set themselves the task of recivilizing… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement. By the wary independence and aloofness of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
