Civilization Quote by Chen Guangcheng Download Open image “How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.” — Chen Guangcheng ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Disabled Treats
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I am physically disabled, but they are culturally and socially disabled'.” — Bbcstories Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.” — Thomas Stephen Szasz Copy Share Image
For all the challenges facing governments and their economies around the world equality for disabled people is not just a big part of the… — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the… — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. — Chen Guangcheng Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
