Macheath [Mac the Knife]: "If the poor are so powerful, then why do they need us?" Peachum [The Beggar King]: "Because they don't know that we need them." --D

Macheath [Mac the Knife]: "If the poor are so powerful, then why do they need us?" Peachum [The Beggar King]: "Because they don't know that we need them." --Die Dreigroschenoper (1931 Film)