Civilised

We are far more likely to be harmed by our fellow man than by our fellow animals, yet we call animals wild and dangerous and we call man advanced and civilised.

What!? How could such a civilised man say such a thing! My monocle has fallen from its rightful perch! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!

These stories are as old as anything that men have invented. They were narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. They have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly. The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science.

I shall never forget the intense power of stillness she possessed, which nevertheless conveyed the impression of a wild untamed spirit in an exquisitely civilised body.

"Palestinians are not civilised," said Mr Johnson.

Mr Johnson thinks that Palestinians aren't civilised.