Civilization Level Quotes

The degree of civilization in a society can by judged by entering its prisons.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the [Ancient] Greeks?

A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

The proper limits of Government interference are relative to the nature of each particular state and the stage of its civilization.

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.