This has been the motto of millions in democracies in recent decades. During the 1930's, when most struggled for bread in the Great Depression, moral standards still prevailed to a considerable degree. But with post-war prosperity came moral decadence.
Violence Let's review quickly the twentieth century.
It has witnessed the violent deaths of more people than in all preceding centuries combined. Consider that bastion of Christianity and democracy, the United States. Post-war prosperity led millions in this land of the free to act as though anarchy were king and chaos the objective. In the sixties racial riots and student upheavals ignited innumerable city fires and prompted looting, the dynamiting of university buildings, and death. Simultaneously, family morality faltered and fell.