[tbrake]

I'd say it's actually completely useless.

The definitions of "weak" and "strong" are extremely malleable depending on your own subjective assessment of the person/people.

It's an almost-aphorism; nearly useful, but not quite.

[kybernetikos]

Not only that, but "good times" and "bad times" are equally ambiguous - good times for who?

I have a feeling that the saying is used primarily by people who imagine themselves strong and think that the good times in history were when the strong were taking from the weak, whereas I think that good times in history are when the weak are protected from the worst abuses of the strong.

[mantas]

When famine hits or you get attacked by another country, it’s not about weak being protected from the strong. It’s about one society getting into trouble.