Algeria is modern and civilized.

Iranians are civilized people.

Here we are, in a civilized city, and despite my urge to deliver these delinquents to justice, I must abstain, with all my willpower, from any illegal act.

Russia is a threat to the whole civilized world.

I don't think that Israel is more civilized than the retrograde Arab regimes that are normalizing relations with it. Just look at how the Palestinians are treated in the occupied territories.

Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.

I'm trying to have a civilized discussion with you. You're the one who's being unreasonable here.

In civilized Europe, bulls are still tortured and killed for fun.

We live in a civilized society.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.