Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.
