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title: "22 Civilizing Quotes by 20 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Civilizing quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Civilizing sayings and thoughts."
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> [Wine is a civilizing agent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/wine-is-a-civilizing-agent/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3c/clifton-fadiman-11053_agent_wine-is-a-civilizing-agent-174169_174169.jpg)

> [Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/art-moves-hence-its-civilizing-power/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-major-civilizing-force-in-the-world-is-not-religion-it-is-sex/)

[Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/)

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> [The objective of civilizing us is to make Indian history become our permanent reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-trudell/the-objective-of-civilizing-us-is-to-make-indian-history-become-our/)

[John Trudell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-trudell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fc/john-trudell-15134_goals_the-objective-of-civilizing-us-is-to-mak_429489.jpg)

> [We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-are-born-princes-and-the-civilizing-process-makes-us-frogs/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shoshana-zuboff/the-civilizing-process-has-increased-the-distance-between-behavior/)

[Shoshana Zuboff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shoshana-zuboff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/shoshana-zuboff-24786_animal_the-civilizing-process-has-increased-the_3202729.jpg)

> [“The Europeans fight to exterminate us and call it civilizing us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-mckay/the-europeans-fight-to-exterminate-us-and-call-it-civilizing-us/)

[Claude McKay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-mckay/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edd/claude-mckay-29093_exterminate_the-europeans-fight-to-exterminate-us-an_3154894.jpg)

> [Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hopkins/christianity-is-the-greatest-civilizing-moulding-uplifting-power-on/)

[Mark Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hopkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd8/mark-hopkins-19715_christianity_christianity-is-the-greatest-civilizing_2441082.png)

> [Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/law-is-the-great-civilizing-machinery-it-liberates-the-desire-to/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/lyndon-b-johnson-684_desire_law-is-the-great-civilizing-machinery-it_632251.png)

> [Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-mac-donald/chivalry-is-one-of-the-great-civilizing-forces-taming-men-and/)

[Heather Mac Donald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-mac-donald/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b2/heather-mac-donald-6566_chivalry_chivalry-is-one-of-the-great-civilizing_3120891.jpg)

> [And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/and-in-the-development-of-mankind-as-a-whole-just-as-in-individuals/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c69/sigmund-freud-360_change_and-in-the-development-of-mankind-as-a-w_1858564.jpg)

> [The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-clark/the-great-achievement-of-the-catholic-church-lay-in-harmonizing/)

[Kenneth Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-clark/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6c/kenneth-clark-9681_achievement_the-great-achievement-of-the-catholic-ch_1399214.png)

> [... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/it-is-a-matter-of-civilizing-everyone-or-not-being-civilized-at-all/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/052/freya-stark-3403_civilization_it-is-a-matter-of-civilizing-everyone-or_2466277.png)

> [“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-scott/the-aspiration-to-such-uniformity-and-order-alerts-us-to-the-fact/)

[James C. Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-scott/)

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> [Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-kirn/horror-and-panic-themselves-are-forms-of-violence-and-diminishing/)

[Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-kirn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/walter-kirn-2189_act_horror-and-panic-themselves-are-forms-of_305367.png)

> [In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/in-the-development-of-mankind-as-a-whole-just-as-in-individuals-love/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/sigmund-freud-360_alone-in-love_in-the-development-of-mankind-as-a-whole_2034373.jpg)

> [Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-blakely/since-civilizing-children-takes-the-better-part-of-two-decades-some/)

[Mary Blakely](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-blakely/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/mary-blakely-18888_apologizing_since-civilizing-children-takes-the-bett_1276033.jpg)

> [Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plutarch/education-and-study-and-the-favors-of-the-muses-confer-no-greater/)

[Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plutarch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/plutarch-597_benefits_education-and-study-and-the-favors-of-th_3135700.jpg)

> [“One of the most impressive civilizing offensives of the 1990s came from African American communities, who set themselves the task of recivilizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/one-of-the-most-impressive-civilizing-offensives-of-the-1990s-came/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [“We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement. By the wary independence and aloofness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/we-talk-of-civilizing-the-indian-but-that-is-not-the-name-for-his/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/cas-wouters-inspired-by-conversations-with-elias-late-in-his-life/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/steven-pinker-526_civilized-society_cas-wouters-inspired-by-conversations-wi_2224972.jpg)

> [I think it's likely that the civilizing effect of literature has done most of the work, and still continues to do. Look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-think-it-s-likely-that-the-civilizing-effect-of-literature-has-done/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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