This has often been quoted with modernized American spelling, rendering it "to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?"
Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 64
“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891Related quotes
Ouida
(1839–1908) British novelist
"Has Christianity Failed?" http://books.google.com/books?id=C1cCAAAAIAAJ&q="even+of+death+Christianity+has+made+a+terror+which+was+unknown+to+the+gay+calmness+of+the+Pagan+and+the+stoical+repose+of+the+Indian"&pg=PA215#v=onepage, in the The North American Review (February 1891)
Marilyn Monroe
(1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 42
Variant: First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
David Hare
(1947) British writer
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
Misattributed
“Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.”
Israel Zangwill
(1864–1926) British writer
Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 2, ch. 6.
Malcolm X
(1925–1965) American human rights activist
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 375
George Santayana
(1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 36
“It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.”
T.S. Eliot
(1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 59
