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Sounds a lot like this saying that’s been going around the last few years:

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

Side tangent- I tried to find the author of that quote thinking it has to be a ‘wise man’ of the past (given that it’s not a gender neutral statement), and it looks like that it’s actually from a post apocalyptic book from 2016 that soon after became a meme.

Source: https://www.slanglang.net/memes/hard-times-create-strong-men...

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I am vaguely aware of the meme you are referring to, but I want to stress that the idea is not entirely new[1] and is often reduced to the following citation:

"We have been compelled to recognize that millions in Germany were as eager to surrender their freedom as their fathers were to fight for it; that instead of wanting freedom, they sought for ways of escape from it; that other millions were indifferent and did not believe the defense of freedom to be worth fighting and dying for."

I am saying that you are absolutely right that it is currently in a cultural spotlight of sorts, but it is hardly the whole story.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Freedom