Civilizing Mission Quotes

#1. Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that only once the whole globe had been subjected to her rule could there be a universal peace.

Tom Holland

#3. The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Peter Kropotkin

#4. Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

Conor Oberst

#5. Sometimes people set themselves up to be hurt by a situation, instead of hurting themselves directly. To absolve the blame.

Leah Raeder

#6. The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#7. The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

Kevin Kline

#8. Behind every powerful man is a woman who knows how to push his buttons. Good

Robert Bryndza

#9. The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

Tony Gilroy

#10. I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.

Spike Jonze

#11. At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

Randy West

#12. I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#13. Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Margaret Halsey

#14. Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.

Newt Gingrich

#15. I'd always felt safe behind locked doors, but locks, I discovered, only locked you in. I

Adam Johnson

#16. The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.

James C. Scott