Cannot Quote by Joao Lourenco

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich?…

— Gertrude Atherton

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against…

— Euripides

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

— Adrienne Clarkson

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

— Thales

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

— Henry Ward Beecher

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to…

— John Stuart Mill

“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or…

— Walt Whitman

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

— Thomas Bernhard

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore