The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'-- Stephen Colbert

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

“The covetous are poor givers.”

“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all”

“No society can flourish of which the greater part is poor and miserable”

“In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.”

“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.”

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them. He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land, and in the price of the greater part of commodities, makes a third”

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation.

"There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty."