#civilised

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it. ↗

— Lee Child

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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

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The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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