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Quotes About Support

We rise by lifting others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~ Carter Burwell
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!
~ Pope Francis
The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
~ Marco Rubio
We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.
~ Joel Osteen
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
~ Ina May Gaskin
As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
~ Justin Welby
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
~ Joseph Campbell
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
~ Patch Adams
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Mas o que aprendemos antes de mais nada da companhia de outros é que o único auxílio que ela pode prestar é como sobreviver em nossa solidao irremível, e que a vida de todo mundo é cheia de riscos que devem ser enfrentados solitariamente.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Un Estado es "social" cuando promueve el principio, comunitariamente respaldado, de prevención colectiva como protección contra los infortunios individuales y sus consecuencias.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Con l'attiva cooperazione di governi e di altri personaggi pubblici che trovano nell'opera di appoggio e fomentazione del pregiudizio comune gli unici strumenti sostitutivi di una politica tesa ad affrontare le cause reali dell'incertezza esistenziale che ossessiona i loro elettori, i "rifugiati" [...] sostituiscono streghe maligne, fantasmi di malfattori impenitenti e altri spiritelli e spauracchi vari che popolano le leggende metropolitane.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.
~ A. C. Crispin
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. Pooh! he whispered. Yes, Piglet? Nothing, said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. I just wanted to be sure of you.
~ A.A. Milne
I don't feel very much like Pooh today, said Pooh. There there, said Piglet. I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.
~ A.A. Milne
Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!
~ A.J. Butcher
Sometimes a place to work, or a place to relax--even if only for an hour--is all you need. That, and good friends. Without those things, the city will break you into a million tiny pieces. But what in the world could be harder to find?
~ Aaron Cometbus
Those first days his daughter, Sally, and I took twelve-hour shifts at the hospital, sitting in a chair next to his bed, listening to the beeping of monitors in the ICU. We were afraid to leave him. It was as if we were trying to hatch an egg, keeping him warm with our presence, and we didn't want him to wake without a familiar face nearby.
~ Abigail Thomas
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~ Abraham Lincoln