Civilizing Quotes

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 believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

The mission of colonization cannot be other than a mission of high civilization.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

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