Act Quote by Walter Kirn

The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in…

— Stephen Hadley

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

— Marshall McLuhan

Wine is a civilizing agent.

— Clifton Fadiman

“Cas Wouters, inspired by conversations with Elias late in his life, suggests that we are living through a new phase in the Civilizing Process.…

— Steven Pinker

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

— Hugh Hefner

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it…

— Sigmund Freud

And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that…

— Sigmund Freud

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

— Kenneth Clark

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing,…

— Mary Blakely

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson