A Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Zygmunt Bauman

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Decency Judge Living Society Weakest

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Zygmunt Bauman
Polish - Sociologist
November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017

What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

Murray Bookchin

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

Michel Foucault

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

Henry Adams

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Elvis Presley

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Harry S. Truman

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Jimmy Carter

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

Alessandro Nivola

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Bill Courtney

Mr. Trump had campaigned on attacking the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.

Bari Weiss

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Fritz Hollings

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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Because Bollywood reflects society, we are all living in a society. We are not a special entity. So whatever prejudices society has for us, we carry into the films.