Quotes About Compassion

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

I want a society free of human trafficking

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.