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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

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James

What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Anonymous — Mike Addington

When did one man ever civilize a people? — John Lothrop Motley

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves. — Robert Jensen

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

What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us? — Larry Brooks

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards. — K.d. Lang

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means. — Ryan Holiday

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians. — John Gay

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. — James A. Michener

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams

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

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

It's just that you're the kindest person in the world. And you're here with me. I'll never stop feeling lucky. — Debra Anastasia

Civilize the mind but make savage the body. — Mao Zedong

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. — Victor Hugo

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

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