Amount Quote by Helen Keller

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

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.”

— Philip Yancey

“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.”

— Hendrik Groen

Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most…

— Gary Null

“The time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being. And measures of well-being should…

— Nic Marks

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do.…

— Ezra Pound

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

— Arthur Helps

I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe and enjoyable,…

— John Burroughs

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

— Nicholas of Flue

“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue,…

— Joseph Heath