Atheism Quote by H. L. Mencken

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

— H. L. Mencken

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to…

— Sarah Vowell

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

— Rachel Kushner

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune…

— R. H. Tawney

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does…

— Leland Ryken

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were…

— Phillips Brooks

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar