Fear Quote by Kenneth C. Davis

“Puritanism,” wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” Who”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

— H. L. Mencken

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere…

— Rebecca Solnit

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

— H. L. Mencken

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who…

— James Bryce