--- title: "10 Poverty Crime Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Poverty Crime quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Poverty Crime sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/arundhati-roy-346_crime_poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terr_9103.png" --- > [Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terrorists/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/arundhati-roy-346_crime_poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terr_9103.png) > [“though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we-must-remember-that/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/anonymous-1_crime_though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we_826521.jpg) > [“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/poverty-is-no-crime-always-remember-that-after-all-why-should-we/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_poverty_poverty-is-no-crime-always-remember-that_497690.jpg) > [The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bennett/the-causes-of-crime-are-very-complicated-but-there-is-a-very-big/) [Bill Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bennett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e5/bill-bennett-34135_about_the-causes-of-crime-are-very-complicated_346190.jpg) > [“These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/these-were-innocent-people-so-innocent-that-they-thought-poverty-a/) [Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/orhan-pamuk-500_innocent-people_these-were-innocent-people-so-innocent-t_759761.jpg) > [When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-evans/when-families-break-down-you-have-a-lot-of-repercussion-from-that/) [Tony Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-evans/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/tony-evans-1635_break_when-families-break-down-you-have-a-lot_863553.png) > [“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-kendzior/when-wealth-is-passed-off-as-merit-bad-luck-is-seen-as-bad-character/) [Sarah Kendzior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-kendzior/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/sarah-kendzior-52877_bad-character_when-wealth-is-passed-off-as-merit-bad-l_2496174.jpg) > [It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-k-jerome/it-is-easy-enough-to-say-that-poverty-is-no-crime-no-if-it-were-men/) [Jerome K. Jerome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-k-jerome/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a81/jerome-k-jerome-1155_ashamed_it-is-easy-enough-to-say-that-poverty-is_30007.png) > [“Screening practices that banned criminality and poverty in the same stroke drew poor families shoulder to shoulder with drug dealers, sex offenders,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-desmond/screening-practices-that-banned-criminality-and-poverty-in-the-same/) [Matthew Desmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-desmond/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d3/matthew-desmond-1529_family_screening-practices-that-banned-criminal_516344.jpg) > [Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-morello/poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an-economic-spreadsheet-poverty/) [Tom Morello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-morello/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/tom-morello-5390_crime_poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an_3171138.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poverty-crime/#itemlist", "name": "Poverty Crime Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Arundhati Roy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terrorists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/arundhati-roy-346_crime_poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terr_9103.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/arundhati-roy-346_crime_poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terr_9103.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/496/arundhati-roy-346_crime_poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terr_9103.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists” — Arundhati Roy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we-must-remember-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/anonymous-1_crime_though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we_826521.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/anonymous-1_crime_though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we_826521.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/anonymous-1_crime_though-of-course-poverty-is-no-crime-we_826521.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that!” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. 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Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Morello" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-morello/poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an-economic-spreadsheet-poverty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/tom-morello-5390_crime_poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an_3171138.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/tom-morello-5390_crime_poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an_3171138.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/tom-morello-5390_crime_poverty-is-not-an-accident-of-sort-of-an_3171138.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. 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