Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about opinion, fear, happiness
Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
2 quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken, American writers, satirist and social critic
Was born on 12 sep 1880. Died on 29 jan 1956, at 75 years old.
Origin country: United States
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightement at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about education, originality, public
