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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
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Mark Hopkins
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Hugh Hefner
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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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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Mark Hopkins
55% of people like this quote
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Hugh Hefner
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The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
Shoshana Zuboff
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