“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

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American writer 1892–1973

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“Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 337

“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)

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“The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.”

Jerome Frank (1889–1957) American jurist

United States ex rel. Caminito v. Murphy, 222 F.2d 698, 706 (1955).

“The citizens are the members of the civil society: linked to this society by certain duties and subject to its authority, they participate with equality has its advantages.”

Emer de Vattel book The Law of Nations

Alternate: The citizens are the members of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. .. if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country page 176 https://books.google.ca/books?id=NukJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176 of English translation published in 1883, while the bottom-left marks it as page 176, it is listed as page 101 on the top-left. The section of the book is titled "OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY, ETC." and it is part of chapter XIX called "OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY AND SEVERAL THINGS THAT RELATE TO IT" quoted in 1856 case https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/393/#476 in supreme court quoted in 1942 by Mr. Stewart seen in page 1683 https://books.google.ca/books?id=qiI9TLONLVMC&pg=PA1683 of part 2 of volume 8 of "Proceedings and Debates of the 77th Congress Second Session" The Law of Nations (1758) Original: (fr) Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages.

“A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.”

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) American politician

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“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

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“A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political, legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.”

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“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”

Sarah Grimké (1792–1873) American abolitionist

As quoted in The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, by Gerda Lerner, ch.5 (1969).

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) American political scientist

Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 2 : Civilizations in History and Today, § 10 : Relations Among Civilizations, p. 51

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