Civilizing Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings…
— Sigmund Freud
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
— Eric Berne
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.
— Newt Gingrich
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The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
— Peter Kropotkin
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The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
— Shoshana Zuboff
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Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
— Cressida Cowell
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The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as…
— John Silber
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How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of…
— Katherine Dunn
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All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission,…
— Lewis Nkosi
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The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
— Eric Hoffer
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
— Mark Hopkins
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
— Hugh Hefner
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process…
— H.G. Wells
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is…
— David Mitchell
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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal…
— Roald Dahl
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
— Walter Kirn
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Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
— Jose Rizal
Who Wrote These Civilizing Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Civilizing Quotes as follows: