Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“When the wolves come down from the hills, the sheep don't get to vote on it.”
The village had no say in the violence brought down upon it from outside.
In the same vein
All Hard Times →A tough job that only gets done one painful foot at a time.
Fend for yourself, because nobody's coming to feed you.
Can't take from someone what they simply don't have.
Life alternates between hitting and being hit.
Everything's going wrong in both directions at once.
Fix it, stretch it, or learn to live with the hole.