History always goes in circles

I've done some reading and a proverb by Aristotle made me wonder of the current political and economical situation in Greece.

It goes as this:

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime

About the current situation an about the things to come and I'm not an optimist or pessimist.

And another more famous to be added to the context:

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen