A
"civilized person" refers to someone who behaves in a polite, respectful, and considerate manner towards others. They follow social norms, have good manners, and show kindness and empathy towards people around them.
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Would it kill you lot to behave
like civilized people debating a point rather than a bunch of baboons hurling feces and invectives at one another?
I have read somewhere on the wall of a house and it says, «if undressing is the civilization then animals are the most
civilized person in the face of earth»
As long as we wish to remain
as civilized people, and make huge progress, we must support our institution at all times not only when it is convenient like Bukola Saraki or some of his acolyte might wish us to believe.
Unlike actual, real gold, which has held value in the eyes of
civilized people since before Christ, we could all pretty much agree tomorrow that Bitcoin was worthless without it really affecting anything.
By choosing to massively attack innocent people, the perpetrators of these acts have lost any right to have their point of view considered
by civilized people.
I find that the fear element of forethought is not stimulating to those
more civilized persons to whom duty and attraction are the natural motives, but is weakening and deterrent.
When these prisoners» terms are done, and they return to society, to put into practice all the lessons they have learned about
how civilized people behave?
Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of
otherwise civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.
This not only goes for hate - speak, but for lying and slandering: our Supreme Court may say it's legal, but is it they
way civilized people conduct themselves?
Thus the form of Gnostic self - expression can be understood as a consequence of the direct impact of Socratic existence on
highly civilized peoples prepared for the axial revolution, but not yet freed from the dominant power of the mythical.
On the one hand, Rabbit seems clearly condemned for giving full rein to the «urgent inner whispers»
which civilized people must hold tightly in check.
Even civilized peoples ask and answer questions about the meaning of human life, the reality of their existence, the nature of the world and the calamities they undergo.
He begins here with his travels to Tierra del Fuego, where he and Robert FitzRoy discover «the dirtiest, most unclean,
least civilized people you could ever imagine.»
We don't just want our children to acquire work skills from their education; we also want them to develop
into civilized people who appreciate the breadth of human accomplishments.
If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we're forced to talk about books we haven't read?
«Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years
when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
Common Article 3 does not list specific guarantees for criminal defendants in NIACs; it simply requires that defendants be afforded «all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable
by civilized people.»
In civilized society and
among civilized persons, this sadism may be somewhat tempered, yet in person - to - person relationships it can be dreadfully apparent.
I'd like to think I was a
more civilized person than to wish physical violence on anyone but hey, I'm not.
Natural disasters put all kinds of pressures on the behaviour of otherwise -
civilized people, and they almost always raise business ethics issues.
Then the rest of
us civilized people in the modern world could finally have some phreekin peace.
As Pete reports, the statesman Gates explains that Congress (where both parties are very well organized) really wasn't good enough for him or any decent and
civilized person.
It has often been violated, also in modern times — massively so under Nazism and Communism — but
civilized people have adhered to it in principle.
Another put it this way: «It may be a sin, but it is more a symptom or an evidence of a sinful condition in some parts of our society — more sinful for Christian and
civilized people to not only allow but promote the conditions that cause it.»
We civilized people have been spoiled.
Companies, like individuals, are wise to take note of the local customs and not just have the arrogance of the imperialists who assume that
every civilized person goes along with their dress codes and cultural standards.
But those p ∞ r babies complained that the American colonists wouldn't stand up in straight lines and fight fair, like
civilized people.
Muslims are modern and
civilized people?
The celestial bodies that made all
the civilized peoples tremble were nothing but lamps and watches!
Viktor von Strauss, the first to notice the ancient cultural change that was later named the Axial Period, described what he observed as «a strange movement of the spirit [which] passed through
all civilized peoples».3 Such «movements of the spirit» may be the key to our understanding of the next phase.