Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure
“Poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime.”
Robespierre: A Revolutionary life, p.43
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“Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Context: The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“Poverty is the mother of crime.”
Mater criminum necessitas tollitur.
Bk. 9, no. 13; translation from S. Giora Shoham and Gill Sher (eds.) The Many Faces of Crime and Deviance (White Plains, N.Y.: Sheridan House, 1983) p. 32.
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“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
Book II, Section VI ( translation http://archive.org/stream/aristotlespolit00aris#page/69/mode/1up by Benjamin Jowett)
Politics
Context: One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
“Poverty puts crime at a discount.”
Nicolas Chamfort
(1741–1794) French writer
La pauvreté met le crime au rabais.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).
“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
George Bernard Shaw
(1856–1950) Irish playwright
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1900s, Major Barbara (1905)