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• Poverty is the mother of crime. -- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180 CE)
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa
• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
  -- Henry Ford...
• Only the extreme is interesting. -- Magnus Lindberg
• 11) "I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough.
  Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni...
• The total amount of evil in any system remains constant.
  Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e....
• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 490...
• Poverty begins at home.