A hungry man can commit any sin or crime. He knows no morality or ethics. How can we expect a hungry man to think of good or bad, reasonable or unreasonable action when his own existence is at stake? The right to life is a paramount right. It is rightly said that poverty is the mother of all crimes. A poor person can commit any crime to save his family from the clutches of illness, hunger, etc. When a person finds that his wife and children are starving to death, he can resort to any measure to save them. Crimes like theft, robbery, dacoity, and pickpocketing are generally committed by those whose means of living are very meager. Poor parents cannot afford to educate their children. They fail to teach them what is right and wrong. A poor man, in fact, has no idea of ethics. It also does not mean that all crimes are committed by the poor. Now-a-days, the abductions—murders, kidnappings, rapes, high-jackings, and all other heinous crimes—are being committed by the rich, who have never seen the face of poverty. They commit such crimes not for the sake of hunger in the stomach but for hunger of power and for more and more money. In the present world, the above saying should be amended to some extent to mean that poverty is not the only cause of crime.