Civilizing Quotes

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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

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

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

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