Others put it more bluntly: "an armed society is a polite society".

有人则更露骨“武装的社会就是文明的社会。”

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As a result he was known as the "Sunday gentleman" because he ventured out into polite society only on the Sabbath, when custom forbade the arrest of debtors.

结果是，由于只敢在按例禁止拘留债务人的安息日大胆进入上流社会，“周日绅士”成为其众所周知的绰号。

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He lives by a set of rules polite society doesn't understand, and therefore fears.

他为他的生存法则而活。这套法则，儒雅社会永远不会懂，由此众人害怕。

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When advised by his doctors to take a break from his cares as one of the richest men in America, he astonished the rest of polite society by taking a pass on the suggested world cruise and came to Alaska, of all places, instead.

BBC: Journey into the Alaskan wild

The European political class will not permit this - even though what is "undiscussable" in polite society is a statement of the numbingly obvious if you stroll through Amsterdam and Rotterdam, not to mention Antwerp, Clichy-sous-Bois, Malmo, or any old Yorkshire mill town.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Mark Steyn on the Geert Wilders Trial

Mr. Kirby says his upbringing as a white minority in his neighborhood left him "uncomfortable" in polite society and hostile to authority.

WSJ: The American Who Tells Russia How Bad Things Are in America