H. L. Mencken Quotes About Prisons

• 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

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Children, School

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

• 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

• What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, May, Morality

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