H. L. Mencken Quotes About Poverty

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Criminals

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf

• 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

  Punishment, Ideas, Dubious

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.265, Knopf

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, Branches, Poverty

  "A Book of Prefaces". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1917.

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