"Generally it is our failures that civilize us.……" — Clive James

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — 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?… — Charles Lamb
• Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization.… — Rajneesh
• The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If… — 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and… — 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.… — Anzia Yezierska
• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a… — Chapman Cohen
• Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is… — Unknown Author

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