We 're both here in the same moment, sharing our thoughts like civilized beings.

Either we live together as civilized beings, or let's end it.

In a very real sense, that is the lot of all civilized human beings.

"You said that making war on them was unthinkable, because they're such great civilized beings."

I'm prepared to make normal civilized beings out of them once again.

"Very well, then, I will come to you, so we may speak together like civilized beings."

It was a civilized being, not a beast of prey.

He worked his way around to look in and see the first nonhuman civilized beings that any man had ever looked upon.

Because they did not have the civilized being's conceit of being above the food chain.

We were two civilized human beings, saying goodbye, who meant to see each other soon again.