Brainy-quotes Quote by Abhijit Naskar

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”

— Ian Fleming

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous

“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

“For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.”

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

“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 Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider

'No means no' is puritanism.

— Gavin McInnes

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune…

— R. H. Tawney

“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

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

— H. L. Mencken

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

— Wendell Phillips