Community Quote by John F. Kennedy

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

— John F. Kennedy

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

— Dan Simmons

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland

“raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Contemporary citizens have become more deluded in their servitude than any previous generation. Somnambulant automata, many critics have observed, sadly allowing slavery to be…

— David Parry

Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be…

— David W. Orr

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington