Colony Quote by Milo Yiannopoulos

“Puritanism—the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken (1949)”

— Kenneth C. Davis

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

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

“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

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

“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

“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

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or…

— Rebecca West

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