"Poverty is the mother of crime...." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”

“Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.”

“Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.”

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.”

“The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.”

“Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”

“A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.”

“They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.”

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