Poverty is the mother of crime.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

The worst crime is faking it.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

All movements go too far.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.