Poverty makes a crime of every indulgence.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

The criminal justice system punishes people for their poverty.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Translation: Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

For the most part, righteousness of life leads a man to poverty.

When you are poor, live as a poor man.

Wherever a man goes men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.