#civilizing

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Hugh Hefner

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

— Kenneth Clark

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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

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

— Mark Hopkins

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

— Publilius Syrus

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