Poverty is Treated as a Crime Rather Than Misfortune

"We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime" -- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Poverty is like Punishment for crime Not Commited

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit" -- Eli Khamaro

Poverty is the Mother of Crime: Marcus Aurelius

"Poverty is the mother of crime" -- Marcus Aurelius

Lack of Sense and Poverty are Parents of Crime

"If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father" -- Jean de la Bruyère

Solve a Crime by Following the Money: Seneca

"He has committed the crime who profits by it" -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slander on Poor That Crime is Caused by Poverty

"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor" -- Henry Louis Mencken