The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?
I judge a man by the way he treats people who don't count. Woody Hayes was nice to a lot of people he couldn't ever use.
Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.
The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.