A Quote by Frank Deford

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Frank Deford

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Frank Deford
American - Novelist
December 16, 1938 - May 28, 2017

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.

Glenn Greenwald

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.

Bryan Stevenson

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Shepard Fairey

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Austin Butler

If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

Victor Ponta

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

Mahatma Gandhi

How we take care of our animals is a very good indicator of how we are doing as a society. It is symbolic of how, as human beings, we go about treating each other.

Ken Howard

What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Nelson Mandela

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Harry S. Truman

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

Chen Guangcheng

All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.