What is "civilised"

Usage examples of "civilised".

I thought, as the Envoy chosen by your people to participate in the peace negotiations which civilised worlds use to settle their differences, that you would at least be prepared to listen to me.

How can we fasten our grip on the events of the world if we do not learn civilised ways?

And Chien-tsu, as all civilised men knew, was wise far beyond his thirty-two years.

However, in a city of barbarians it is difficult to retain hold of civilised behaviour.

You are a lusty wench, and in any civilised land you would be the king's courtesan.

Well, at least the Shavlan Unity was more civilised than the Deoran Empire.

How could anyone who called herself civilised let Van Makass touch her?

Two, I think, for to face a strange planet, even though it be a wholly civilised one, without some other familiar backing, dashes the courage overmuch.

Equally strong in the normal civilised man is the desire for freedom of movement and the desire for a certain privacy, for a corner definitely his, and we have to consider where the line of reconciliation comes.

Who, in a really civilised community, would grudge that measure of invasion?

There will be no distinctions of class in such a train, because in a civilised world there would be no offence between one kind of man and another, and for the good of the whole world such travelling will be as cheap as it can be, and well within the reach of any but the almost criminally poor.

Money, did you but use it right, is a good thing in life, a necessary thing in civilised human life, as complicated, indeed, for its purposes, but as natural a growth as the bones in a man's wrist, and I do not see how one can imagine anything at all worthy of being called a civilisation without it.

In barbaric and disorderly countries it is almost honourable to be indigent and unquestionably virtuous to give to a beggar, and even in the more or less civilised societies of earth, so many children come into life hopelessly handicapped, that austerity to the poor is regarded as the meanest of mean virtues.

If you prevent people making profit out of their children—and every civilised State—even that compendium of old-fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the necessity of that prohibition—and if you provide for the aged instead of leaving them to their children's sense of duty, the practical inducements to parentage, except among very wealthy people, are greatly reduced.

The field workers will probably take their food with them to their work during the day, and for the convenience of an interesting dinner and of civilised intercourse after the working day is over, they will most probably live in a college quadrangle with a common room and club.