Quotes About Poverty In Crime And Punishment

#1. A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Paul Goodman

#2. On another she made chitchat with the cashier at the Coop. That was an absolute first. The checker offered a forced, availing smile in return.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#3. Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

John Stuart Mill

#4. The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

Ernest Van Den Haag

#5. Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Nelson Mandela

#6. Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

Price Pritchett

#7. All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Mark Twain

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

Henry Ford

#9. Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Gyorgy Kepes

#10. I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly or good sometimes - can help anybody get any better or worse at it.

Peter Orner

#11. I blamed you for what other dragons did. Instead of judging you by your actions and heart, I judged you by theirs and by my own fear.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

John Allen Fraser

#13. She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

Jennifer Egan

#14. You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story

Dan Harmon

#15. When I went back and watched a couple of the older 'Doctor Who' episodes, I could see why some people felt the show had been quite sexist.

Daphne Ashbrook

#16. Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.

Hilda Doolittle

#17. How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

Henry George

#18. The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H.L. Mencken

#19. The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

John Smith