Country Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

— Eli Khamarov

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

— Arundhati Roy

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

For whatever reason, in this country we have a very interesting relationship with poverty, where we think people in poverty are bad people.

— Michael Tubbs

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

— George Bernard Shaw

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

— Jimmy Barnes

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Poverty is the mother of crime.

— Marcus Aurelius

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein