Complacent Quote by John F. Kennedy

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

— John F. Kennedy

Societies don't become less self-indulgent; people do.

— Mal Fletcher

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

“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted…

— Tudor Parfitt

“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

Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of…

— Rush Limbaugh

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

— Isaac

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left…

— James Russell Lowell

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

— Elliott Abrams

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness,…

— Walter Bagehot

While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all…

— Frederick Lenz