> The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise

> - Socrates (399 BC)

> The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress

> - Peter the Hermit (1274)

> > - Socrates (399 BC)

Context: Ancient Greece went into decline just 70 years after that date. Make of that what you will.