Under any circumstances

Ellsworth Huntington, Climatic Change and Agricultural Exhaustion as Elements in the Fall of Rome, February 1917. JSTOR Open Access. From page 27 of 37.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1883908?seq=1

Under such circumstances the poverty and discouragement of the many almost inevitably favor the concentration of power in the hands of a few.

- Ellsworth Huntington