Quotes About Civilize

#1. Taking part in the Western mission to civilize the East is highly spiritually rewarding. And what is political destabilization and social unrest but a sweet revenge for China's disregard for Western hegemony.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#2. Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of "Mormonism"; [it is designed] to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. Schlesinger was a passionate believer in New Deal liberalism, which he saw as the only way to civilize capitalism. And

David Talbot

#4. Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

John Gay

#5. Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

#6. If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Victor Hugo

#7. I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

Luke Ford

#8. Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

Robert G. Ingersoll

#9. Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

James A. Michener

#10. She knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think
or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. 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

#12. We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

Ray Bradbury

#13. I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

John Adams

#14. I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

Jules Ferry

#15. When did one man ever civilize a people?

John Lothrop Motley

#16. We will civilize you yet," she retorted.
"I don't know," Tristan said abruptly. "I rather like him uncivilized." Then he seemed to realize what he'd said, and went crimson.

Rowan Speedwell

#17. The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

Louis Simpson

#18. Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Clive James

#19. The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

Robert Jensen

#20. First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.

Victor Hugo

#21. Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

Mao Zedong

#22. The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

J.B. Priestley

#23. The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age ... The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. The triumph of sin in 1865 would have stimulated and helped to civilize both sides.

H.L. Mencken

#25. I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don't civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.

Robert A. Heinlein

#26. Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

Edgar Morin

#27. Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

Charles Lamb

#28. I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

Carolyn Hax

#29. Jeez, you're strong. And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.

Anne Tenino

#30. A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Victor Hugo

#31. Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

William Henry Irwin

#32. As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. Looting and site destruction are global problems. We have a tough road ahead, and one key will be developing more collaborations and using new technologies like satellite imagery.

Sarah Parcak

#34. I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Charlie Kaufman

#35. Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Timothy Keller

#36. Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Jim Carroll

#37. I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Mark Twain