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What does civilized mean?
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We live in a civilized society.
You could try and be a bit more civilized.
Look under the skin of a civilized man and you will find a barbarian.
The missionaries civilized the natives.
In civilized Europe, bulls are still tortured and killed for fun.
So many members of our civilized society would do well to live some time with a primitive people.
All civilized countries are against war.
Russia is a threat to the whole civilized world.
They call themselves civilized, but they're just as savage as those they call barbarians.
Movie subtitles
No, 600 years ago, the idea of a civilized West would have seemed absurd.
The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized.
A completely civilized point of view.
I'm sure it's very civilized.
And of the many thousands that comprise these mobs only 765 were ever even brought to trial because their supposedly civilized communities have refused to identify them for trial.
And the law doesn't know that a lot of things that were very important to me silly things, maybe, like a belief in justice and an idea that men were civilized and a feeling of pride that this country of mine was different from all others.
Come now, gentlemen, be civilized.
I'm decent and civilized and I love your daughter, which isn't hard.
It is customary for His Majesty's soldiers, if I may call you that without maligning my sense of proportion, to observe the rules of civilized warfare.
It's no civilized to scalp white men.
If we keep hanging around here, these two galoots are gonna get civilized.
Until one day, while performing feats of stratospheric skill never before attempted by civilized man an unfortunate phenomena occurred.
I know civilized people pay debts.
Because she admitted killing, and in a civilized community, a trial's inevitable.
You is all nice and settled now. And this here valley is gettin' altogether too civilized for me.
You're a strange lot of civilized barbarians. working and living your whole lives out here.
You admitted the barbarian was civilized, didn't you?
Well, at least the men are civilized.
This is a little bit more civilized.
Couldn't you do something a little more civilized?
Why, it ain't civilized to condemn Christian people to Lazarette Island.
Besides, if we keep hanging around here, these two will get civilized.
We are going to dwell on the habits.. Of civilized peoples.
Back to bed unless you give me your oath you'll speak in a civilized tone.
Vicky, if you don't make your choice like an intelligent, civilized.
Or that he hadn't committed ordinary transgressions against society. But, after all, that's the problem of civilized man's soul, isn't it?
Why should I suspect an apparently civilized man.
Well, it's no reason why we can't be civilized and talk, is it?
Just as one civilized man to another, I. if that isn't insulting you.
In any civilized place the biggest investor gets the biggest return, don't he?
I thought I was among civilized men who wouldn't begrudge me fresh water.
Who's not civilized?
News and current affairs
When the proceedings began a year ago, democratic Russia seemed to be catching up at long last with the civilized world in holding military officers accountable to the rule of law.
Bali; and more. They do not seek an armistice with the civilized world.
Had the goal been mere recovery of tax arrears, there would have been no need to break up the company: Yukos could have settled even these colossal liabilities on a civilized installment schedule.
Everywhere and at all times, being civilized means being able to recognize and accept the humanity of others, despite their different modes of living.
We have become an outlaw nation - a clear and present danger to international law and global stability - among civilized countries that have been our allies.
We need targeted government-led sanctions against the US by civilized countries, including international divestment of capital.
The Iranian government's contempt for the international community reflects its contempt for human rights and civilized norms.
On the contrary, their influence will make life not only less civilized, but a great deal more dangerous.
So a civilized China is emerging, just as a civilized Eastern Europe once emerged, from the hearts and minds of prisoners of conscience, of people like Liu Xiaobo.
Awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize lifts the hopes of all of us who dream of a truly free and civilized China.
American behavior and self-perceptions reveal the ease with which a civilized country can engage in large-scale killing of civilians without public discussion.
To show that the new Russia stood for civilized values, Yeltsin refused to repudiate the country's external obligations as the Bolsheviks had in 1917.
But let's put these grim prospects aside, and ponder what a civilized solution to the problem of technology-driven unemployment would look like.
Of course, the so-called civilized world never managed to create a living utopia.
Perhaps Americans have moved closer to understanding that they can and must fight terrorism in a civilized way, as free and thoughtful people.
It is much more about the accompanying concepts of social fairness, entitlement, equality and, yes, standards of behavior for a rich and civilized society.
But to embrace the images they published as a statement of Enlightenment conviction weakens the values that are essential to a civilized society.
Indeed, the fundamental principle of democracies and civilized states is at issue in Chechnya: civilians' right to life, including the protection of innocents, widows, and orphans.
Europe's historic rivalries have, of course, been civilized into a political model that European diplomats often see as applicable across the international arena.
Muslims find it hard to understand how we can believe our society is civilized when pornography and drunkenness are openly displayed.
Even civilized, educated people signed on to it.
In civilized life, people refrain from saying many things, regardless of questions of legality.
But civilized life, especially in countries with great ethnic and religious diversity, would soon break down if everyone felt free to say anything they liked to anyone.
But their behavior has now moved beyond the civilized pale.
Its enforcers were beyond the civilized pale, and the world's patience with them had run out.
The two countries are condemned by history and geography to develop civilized neighborly relations.