Pope Francis Quotes

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

In America, the old are neglected.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

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 the way that it cares for its helpless members.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

Democrats like to picture us as pushing grandmother over the cliff or throwing someone under the bus. In either one of those scenarios, at least the senior has a chance to survive.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.