civilized

The last six months have been a stark reminder of the brutality that lurks at the boundaries of civilized society.

A mark of the civilized person is that he in no way luxuriates in his violence.

In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow.

An innocent person condemned by law is perhaps the most horrifying thing a civilized society can acknowledge.

It means being more civilized, and treating breaking up as an opportunity for personal growth.

Who could suppose that two tolerably civilized nations would endure this in the middle of 1851?

Then we are again overgrown boys, beings of inferior race and incapable of being civilized.

Hereditary legislation in the twentieth century and the most civilized country in the world!

The critical moralist pauses before the formidable array of the entire social world, civilized and savage.

There is nothing picturesque in those old towns, for they were dead before they were civilized.