"The objective of civilizing us is to make……" — John Trudell

More Civilizing Quotes

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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
• Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted… — Mary Ritter Beard
• In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in… — Sigmund Freud
• We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. — Eric Berne
• Wine is a civilizing agent. — Clifton Fadiman
• Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing… — Newt Gingrich
• The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. — Peter Kropotkin
• The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. — Shoshana Zuboff
• Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to… — Cressida Cowell
• The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the… — John Silber
• How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained… — Katherine Dunn
• All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the… — Lewis Nkosi

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