A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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.
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.
A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog.
A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members
The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.
Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
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.
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.