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Social reform cannot remove a penalty for vice, only shift it onto others
Drawn from what William Graham Sumner said
What William Graham Sumner actually said
- William Graham Sumner American sociologist (1840 to 1910)
Now, we never can annihilate a penalty. We can only divert it from the head of the man who has incurred it to the heads of others who have not incurred it.
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↗What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)gutenberg.org
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