Pope Francis Quotes

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward.

I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal issues most important to me? Absolutely. I have an affinity with them, but I also care about children and the elderly and always say that the rest of everybody else can fend for themselves because we're in a age where we can. And we're all able to do so.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

Ours is an individualistic society, indeed, and the state must do for the individual what the family does for the older civilizations.

My kids are part of the rest of my community and my wider family.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems.

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.