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Civilizing Quotes

Civilizing Definition  
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Mark Hopkins

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
Shoshana Zuboff

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

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.
John Adams

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

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus

  


  

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