Measure Of A Society Quotes

#1. The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Wade Davis

#2. The measure of a society, he said, is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile.

Eric Weiner

#3. The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. The measure of a society is its compassion.

Kristin Hannah

#5. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carter

#6. But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves time to slow down, to be close to the earth around us, have we become impervious to a God who chooses to reveal Himself through His creation?

Amy Litzelman

#8. One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Kobo Abe

#9. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

Husam Wafaei

#10. The autonomy to have a consensual relationship with whoever we love is the ultimate measure of the freedom of a society.

Rod Dubey

#11. Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.

B.R. Ambedkar

#12. There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Nelson Mandela

#13. I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

Milton Friedman

#14. The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

Henry Giroux

#15. By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Robert Wilson

#16. It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

Hubert H. Humphrey

#17. The way we view fiction is a reflection of how we define ourselves as a nation. Works of the imagination are canaries in the coal mine, the measure by which we can evaluate the health of the rest of society.

Azar Nafisi

#18. That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.

Jane Austen

#19. The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

Milton Friedman

#20. How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

#21. I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.

Charlene Li

#22. If we believe men have any personal rights at all, then they must have an absolute moral right to such a measure of good health as society can provide.

Thurston Clarke

#23. If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#24. Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Greg Boyle

#25. It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - KRISHNAMURTI

Ethan Nichtern

#26. 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

#27. The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.

Kofi Annan

#28. For as Dostoyevsky warned, "No nation on earth, no society with a certain measure of stability, has been developed to order, on the lines of a program imported from abroad.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

#29. The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Mary McAleese

#30. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

B.R. Ambedkar

#31. The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Zygmunt Bauman

#32. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.

E. M. Forster

#33. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman

#34. I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

Dean Kamen

#35. In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Ray Dalio

#36. The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

Dallin H. Oaks

#37. The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Ananda Coomaraswamy