“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.”

Original: (it) L'umiltà è una rarità che appartiene esclusivamente alle persone di successo.
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Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
1920s

&quot;The Bubble of American Supremacy&quot; in The Atlantic Monthly (December 2003), p. 63 - 66 http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/analysis/2003/12supremacy.htm <br class="br">Context: The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration stands in opposition to the principles of an open society, which recognize that people have different views and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. The supremacist ideology postulates that just because we are stronger than others, we know better and have right on our side. The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President&#x27;s annual laying out to Congress of the country&#x27;s security objectives) reads, &quot;The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise.&quot;<br>The assumptions behind this statement are false on two counts. First, there is no single sustainable model for national success. Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

No Souvenirs (1977) later retitled Journal II, 1957-1969 (1989), p. 117.
Context: The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man. The myth of the murdered father, among others, reconstituted and interpreted in Totem and Taboo. It would be impossible to ferret out a single example of slaying the father in primitive religions or mythologies. This myth was created by Freud. And what is more interesting: the intellectual élite accept it (is it because they understand it? Or because it is "true" for modern man?)

Special message to the Congress on National Health Needs (65)&quot; (27 February 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1962

Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Postscript of letter to Mandell Creighton (5 April 1887), puplished in Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1907), edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, Appendix, p. 505 http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&amp;staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2201&amp;chapter=203934&amp;layout=html&amp;Itemid=27 <br class="br">Context: ADVICE TO PERSONS ABOUT TO WRITE HISTORY — DON’T<br>In the Moral Sciences Prejudice is Dishonesty.<br>A Historian has to fight against temptations special to his mode of life, temptations from Country, Class, Church, College, Party, Authority of talents, solicitation of friends.<br>The most respectable of these influences are the most dangerous.<br>The historian who neglects to root them out is exactly like a juror who votes according to his personal likes or dislikes.<br>In judging men and things Ethics go before Dogma, Politics or Nationality. The Ethics of History cannot be denominational.<br>Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.<br>Put conscience above both system and success.<br>History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.