“I think it a valid hypothesis that poverty is actually dreadfully painful -not only physically, but emotionally and socially. There is only so much pain we can expect a being to endure before his attempts to relieve it through future-damaging means become perfectly understandable and, in fact, rational.” Poverty Book:Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide Source: Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“On the streets you'll stay, and your children, and it'll be no more than you deserve. We are punishing poverty," she said, pushing away her plate: "If you are poor, and miserable, and behave as you might well expect a poor and miserable person to behave, since there's precious little else to pass the time, then your sentence is more misery, and more poverty.” PovertyPoverty Quotes Book:The Essex Serpent Source: The Essex Serpent