“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.” HumansHas BeensWholeShowsSeemsActionLife IsCausesWealthResultsClassPovertyEconomicConditionsSubjectsCrimeBehaviorClaimsPropertyComplexesEndlessStatisticsImperfectHuman BehaviorDistributionHeredityDistribution Of Wealth Author:Clarence Darrow
“I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.” PeopleProblemPovertyClaimsWorkhouses Author:Edwina Currie
“Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.” WantLeftWealthPovertyOppositesClaims Author:Rush Limbaugh
“For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.” ShouldProblemSchoolEnergyGivenResultsPowerfulMoralPovertyIssuesFailingCenturySecurityIgnoranceGayUniversalClaimsClimateClimate ChangeFocusedNuclearMost PowerfulBigotryGenocideEnginesFrameworkGay MarriageProliferationRelativismFaith BasedNuclear ProliferationMoral RelativismEnergy Security Author:Sam Harris
“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.” YearsPovertyMillionsWorstWeaponsMassDestructionClaimsVictimHungerWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionWorld HungerHunger And PovertyHunger Poverty Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?” ShouldSufferingHumanityPoorClassPovertySceneEnlightenmentClaimsResponsibleAbsenceLegacyStablePeasantsVisitorsDeficiencyVulgarityUpper Class Author:Mary McCarthy