All the countries of the world should be governed by the civilized rules of international law and human rights, except for that part of the world called Palestine. There, only Biblical rules should apply to the Palestinians.

You could try and be a bit more civilized.

Algeria is a civilized country.

Kabyles are civilized and peaceful people. They reject violence and they'd never go with Ferhat Mehenni's rabidly racist and Islamophobic group that's now officially considered a terrorist organization.

Checkers are played in many different ways, despite their widespread use in all civilized countries.

Bush only wants to civilize the world.

Normalizing relations with Israel wouldn't make those Arab regimes more democratic or civilized. In fact, Israel itself doesn't respect human rights especially in the occupied territories.

They call themselves civilized, but they're just as savage as those they call barbarians.

If there is no rain, there is no water. This may make a civilized society into an uncivilized one.

That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.