In civilized life, people refrain from saying many things, regardless of questions of legality.

On the contrary, their influence will make life not only less civilized, but a great deal more dangerous.

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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.

Germany, France, and Italy are rich countries. Even without reforms, they will be able to afford a civilized form of life for many years to come.

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.

Even civilized, educated people signed on to it.

Instead of civilized debate, they have filibusters and fisticuffs.

Bombing civilian areas is not something civilized countries do.

But some amount of paternalism is necessary in civilized societies.

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.

Those of us who enjoy the advantages of life in the relatively prosperous and 'civilized' corners of this world are not as sensitive as we believe to the injustice beyond our borders.

Perhaps this shows that France is more civilized than the US.

Extremists have targeted all civilized societies across the globe in New York and Washington Istanbul Madrid Beslan Bali and more. They do not seek an armistice with the civilized world.

The nineteenth century philosopher John Stuart Mill had a more civilized view

On the contrary, he sees himself as a deeply civilized man of peace.

The two countries are condemned by history and geography to develop civilized neighborly relations.

Perhaps the US is not as civilized as France, but it is more democratic.

Yet it has worked, preventing catastrophic wars while making people more civilized and cautious.

In any civilized society, ignorance is not illegal and being moralistic is anybody s inherent privilege.

That is why all civilized countries have given up the claim to rule by force.

There are questions here that are not easily answered by civilized defenders of the Enlightenment.

The Court provides a prudent and civilized alternative to violence and the use of force.

Most Europeans cannot understand how, in a civilized country, both candidates can favor the death penalty.

And the appearance that needs the most maintenance is that of a modern and civilized Russia.

We all know that being civilized in this formal way doesn t prevent people from behaving like barbarians.

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.

Whether they have the force of law is not the point they provide guidance for civilized behavior.

Many now claim that abolition of capital punishment is a precondition of a civilized criminal law system.

Words like cockroach, delusional, derp, dope, fool, knave, mendacious idiot, and zombie have no place in civilized debate.

One consequence of the Iraq war is to expose (once again) the false divide between civilized and barbarous nations.

It exists, in part, because individuals know that civilized societies will never stand by and watch the elderly starve.

In 2005, the whole civilized world is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

For my country, it signifies an absolute moral abomination, a denial of all things civilized without precedent or parallel.

This is a central part of Israel s policy, in flat defiance of international law and customary norms of civilized behavior.

Terrorism will prevail if its mentality infects the civilized world, and if state leaders resort to terror to fight terror.

Muslims find it hard to understand how we can believe our society is civilized when pornography and drunkenness are openly displayed.

Last February s Mecca agreement, which created the Fatah Hamas unity government, was supposed to establish a civilized system of power sharing.

The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable, he wrote, even if it does not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe.

As is well known, Argentina is firmly committed to the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, because terrorism is a serious threat to international peace and security and violates the most basic human right the right to life and constitutes an attack on civilized coexistence.

Awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize lifts the hopes of all of us who dream of a truly free and civilized China.

Perhaps Americans have moved closer to understanding that they can and must fight terrorism in a civilized way, as free and thoughtful people.

Europe s historic rivalries have, of course, been civilized into a political model that European diplomats often see as applicable across the international arena.

But let s put these grim prospects aside, and ponder what a civilized solution to the problem of technology driven unemployment would look like.