" Prosperity has strangled us,” says Dr. Pierpaolo Donati, a leading Catholic intellectual and professor of sociology at the University of Bologna. “Comfort is now the only thing anybody believes in. The ethic of sacrifice for a family—one of the basic ideas of human societies—has become a historical notion. It is astonishing.”22 "

― Patrick J. Buchanan , The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization