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

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.

Civilized Talk

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

Last month, parallel developments on opposite sides of the world gave us grounds for thinking that the world may, slowly and haltingly, be becoming a little more civilized.

Even civilized, educated people signed on to it.

The battle being fought in Iraq is not ours alone, but a fight to protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.

Unfortunately, the former Soviet leadership and civilized world remained indifferent to this conflict, the barbarity of the Armenians and the terrible plight of the Azerbaijanis.

Instead of civilized debate, they have filibusters and fisticuffs.

Bombing civilian areas is not something civilized countries do.

There are no euphemisms that can inoffensively imply that one of the great world religions is a murderous, irrational ideology, unacceptable for modern, civilized human beings.

But some amount of paternalism is necessary in civilized societies.

Rather than containing rising powers such as China and India, they would be drawn into a civilized world order, one based on global governance and smart diplomacy.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Prime Minister of India had stated that no society could claim to be a part of the modern civilized world unless it treated its women on a par with its men.

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

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

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.

We believe that terrorism is a threat to civilized processes and to the imperatives of resolving conflicts and establishing peaceful coexistence in the world in order to ensure the development and prosperity of our peoples.

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.

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

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.

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

This situation where children, in particular girls, are being affected by armed conflict cannot and should not be allowed to continue by the civilized world, and the imposition of targeted actions against the perpetrators of such crimes is a paramount necessity.

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

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.

International law and the indictment of war criminals are important for a civilized world order, but they are no substitute for active financial and political engagement to support an internationally legitimate, and urgently needed, peace accord such as the CPA in Sudan.