Civilising

Or Quezacotl the Feathered Serpent (hey, more seraphim?) who is identified as a civilising force of light and good against the forces of darkness and chaos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obviously, to John Vorster it would have been preferable that this great honour should have gone to one of the apartheid architects presumably for their so-called civilising efforts of the backward natives. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He much enjoyed listening to the accounts given by travellers of the scenes, animals and plants and native life they had seen, and deplored the so-called civilising of the natives, which, in his opinion, generally meant their exploitation by Europeans, leading to their deterioration and extermination. ❋ Marchant, James (1916)

"Admitting all that," said Shelton, "what I hate is the humbug with which we pride ourselves on benefiting the whole world by our so-called civilising methods." ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

The period since the year 1870 has for the most part witnessed the operation of the last and the least romantic of these so-called civilising efforts. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)

Pinker's account suggests that what the great cultural historian Norbert Elias called the "civilising process" was a long, arduous struggle whose long-term outcome was never assured. ❋ John Naughton (2011)

Running in parallel came what social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer called the civilising of the British character.

"What was arrogantly described as a civilising mission in South Africa was in fact the genocidal destruction of the Khoi and the San people, the land expropriation of the rest of the indigenous people, the obliteration of their culture in all its forms, the application of a consistent policy for the impoverishment of the black people and their transformation into labour units for the enrichment of the coloniser and the political domination of the majority by a white settler minority." ❋ Unknown (2000)

What was arrogantly described as a civilising mission in South Africa was in fact the genocidal destruction of the Khoi and the San people, the land expropriation of the rest of the indigenous people, the obliteration of their culture in all its forms, the application of a consistent policy for the impoverishment of the black people and their transformation into labour units for the enrichment of the coloniser and the political domination of the majority by a white settler minority. ❋ Unknown (1980)

By 1854, the Cape Colonial Administration had adopted a 'civilising' policy towards the indigenous people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As it is, we have been so busy 'civilising' ourselves that we have forgotten to live. ❋ Unknown (1893)

But on his return to England, the "civilising", veil-burning Cromer saw no contradiction in founding the Men's League for Opposing Women's Suffrage - a group which tried by any means possible to prevent the women of Britain from gaining the right to vote. ❋ OpenDemocracy (2010)

It means hundreds of thousands of regular borrowers are likely to see their local branch shut - restricting access to the "civilising" impact of literature, as well as learning facilities and free use of the internet. ❋ Unknown (2010)