What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Source: Rhett Butler, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 9, 1936.
-- Margaret Mitchell, (Nov 8 1900-1949), US novelist; She won Pulitzer for her only book Gone with the Wind, 1936.