Famous quotes containing the word civilizing:
“The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by the opulent, can be enjoyed by all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Womans success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beastswho merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caveswas a civilizing triumph.”
—Mary Ritter Beard (18761958)