“The first chapter describes enlightened attempts to civilise two boys who seem to have been ineducable.”

“Both countries have a spying and military heritage, and both feel they have a mission to civilise the world.”

“It is the way we have tried to civilise the world and we must not forget that.”

“Both responded to the story of Rome as the endlessly fascinating adventures of a people who thought of themselves as having a mission to civilize the world.”

“The teens take the opportunity to refine and civilize the primitive man, and to give him the appreciation of modern education.”

“There is clearly a major confrontation at the moment about how we in Australia find our own way to civilize global capital.”

“Barajas civilises the numbing experience of air travel, humanising the flows and processes of airport life and using them to configure a building of power and presence.”

“We praise literature in self-evident terms: it is better to read than not to read, for reading civilizes us, makes us less cruel, and brings the imaginations of others into ours and vice versa.”

“The heat is calming, torpor civilizes, you are warmly welcomed.”

“The Anglo-Saxon civilizes the other races or devotes them to extinction.”

“They must take the lead in civilising our streets and reclaiming them for local communities.”

“First-wave feminists also maintained a wounded attachment to sati to justify their need to be partners in the Empire as civilising agents.”

“Henderson would carry into battle a keen humour and surrealistic artistry as a civilising force to offset the enormities of war.”

“I'll leave the work of civilizing this horror-soaked generation of hellraisers to the halitotic hard-cases who can handle it.”

“But modern humanity did not understand the civilizing and humanizing mission of higher learning.”

“Doubtless much of their prospicience may be due to an animal instinct that has been lost to us in the civilizing process. ”