Sunday, June 30, 2024

Puritanism

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”  H.L. Mencken.


Source: Wikipedia

"The Puritan's utter lack of aesthetic sense, his distrust of all romantic emotion, his unmatchable intolerance of opposition, his unbreakable belief in his own bleak and narrow views, his savage cruelty of attack, his lust for relentless and barbarous persecution – these things have put an almost unbearable burden up on the exchange of ideas in the United States."

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