John Cooke Quotes

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Poverty demoralizes.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.

Russia is in the advanced stages of poverty.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

The number one cause of crime is criminals.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.