He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.” — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the… — Daniel Neal Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The same wakefulness the individual Calvinist was to use to keep watch over his own sins Winthrop and Cotton called for also… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many;… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the zeal of Boston's rank-and-file marathoners rivaled, and in some ways echoed, the religious passion of Nathaniel Howe and his congregation.… — John Brant Copy Share Image
“...Subordination of the state to Christian values is precisely what the early Puritans, even those in the tradition of the Mayflower Pilgrims,… — Mark Ellingsen Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Puritans used this doctrine when assessing Native American and African strangers, ensuring intolerance from the start in their land of tolerance.18 Beginning” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The highly moralistic and uncompromising outlook of the Puritans eventually put them and their descendants on a collision course with the institution… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“But what would cause Yankeedom eventually to be so loathed by the other nations was its desire—indeed, its mission—to impose its ways… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
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