• The dog was put down after an offence magistrates said was "totally unacceptable in a civilised society".

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Jail and life ban for dog cruelty

  • This was carried out to such a shocking degree that it's totally unacceptable in a civilised society.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Jail and life ban for dog cruelty

  • "The people who carried out this shooting have no support from the local community and no place in a civilised society, " he said.

    BBC: Schoolgirl's rapist shot in home

  • "The NSPCC are very keen for me to moderate my language on this but I am very angry that... we still have a situation in a supposed civilised society that children report that appearing in court is worse than the abuse they suffered in the first place, " he said.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | NSPCC calls for child witness aid

  • Not necessarily to show specifically what happened to the Jews, but also to remind people how even in a supposedly 'civilised' society, like Germany in the 1930's, many ordinary people can be made to commit horrendous acts against their neighbours in the name of hatred.

    BBC: Do we need a Holocaust Memorial Day?

  • It's just a mystery to me that it's taken a civilised society so long to bring in a law which protects those of us who care about our health, as opposed to those who indulge in the disease-sticks.

    BBC: Non-smoker

  • "It is a mark of a civilised society that we should be able to mark the passing of significant figures in a dignified way, " she said.

    BBC: Baroness Thatcher's coffin

  • "His insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of revealed religion in civilised society, and into the need for a broadly-based and wide-ranging approach to education were not only of profound importance to Victorian England, but continue today to inspire and enlighten many all over the world, " he said.

    BBC: Pope beatifies Cardinal Newman as his UK tour ends

  • In 1965 Lewis Coser, an eminent sociologist, argued that the modern university had become an indispensable part of a civilised society, a place that provides salaried intellectuals with a milieu conducive to the exchange of ideas and, uniquely, a licence to disagree with those who pay them.

    ECONOMIST: A cardinal in cyberspace

  • "We think it's a disgrace to civilised society and the American government that nothing whatsoever has been done to try these people in any form of fair trial".

    BBC: Lawyers condemn Cuba captives ruling

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