Civilize Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still… — John Adams
• If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. — Victor Hugo
• Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
• Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become… — Rajneesh
• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and… — J. B. Priestley
• Civilize the mind but make savage the body. — Mao Zedong
• Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
• Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. — James A. Michener
• I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I… — Anzia Yezierska
• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes… — Chapman Cohen
• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the… — Edgar Morin
• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his… — Kwame Nkrumah
• Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James
• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to… — Margaret Visser
• Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All… — Arno C. Gaebelein
• In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands… — Jonathan Gottschall

Who Wrote These Civilize Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 28 Civilize Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Civilize Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2 Civilize Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 1 Civilize Quote by Anzia Yezierska
• 1 Civilize Quote by Chapman Cohen
• 1 Civilize Quote by Edgar Morin
• 1 Civilize Quote by Kwame Nkrumah
• 1 Civilize Quote by Clive James
• 1 Civilize Quote by Edward Said
• 1 Civilize Quote by Margaret Visser
• 1 Civilize Quote by Arno C. Gaebelein
• 1 Civilize Quote by Jonathan Gottschall
• 1 Civilize Quote by E E Cummings
• 1 Civilize Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 Civilize Quote by Frank Herbert
• 1 Civilize Quote by John T. Flynn
• 1 Civilize Quote by John Updike
• 1 Civilize Quote by Luke Ford
• 1 Civilize Quote by John Lothrop Motley
• 1 Civilize Quote by John Adams
• 1 Civilize Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 Civilize Quote by Rajneesh
• 1 Civilize Quote by J. B. Priestley
• 1 Civilize Quote by Mao Zedong
• 1 Civilize Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Civilize Quote by Joseph Smith, Jr.