Colony Quotes

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

'No means no' is puritanism.

— Gavin McInnes

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

— Robert Mugabe

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

— Julie Payette

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

— Leland Ryken

“we could see manmade things. Colony things.”

— Hugh Howey

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

— D. H. Lawrence

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

— Pee Wee Reese

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson

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

— Wendell Phillips

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

— John McCain

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

— Edmund Burke

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

— H. L. Mencken

“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the…

— H.L. Mencken

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

— Anonymous

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony.…

— Cyra McFadden

Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread…

— Stephen Hawking

“They live, we sleep, we starve, they eat. You must comply with their deceit, don't trust the wolves to guard the sheep.…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there.…

— Pamela Moore

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this…

— Manning Marable

I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought…

— Bettie Page

If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large…

— Dave Barry

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and…

— Edward Gibbon

“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided…

— John Adams

Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world.…

— Hugo Chavez

In the field of snobbery, Australia is an underdeveloped country; even a few British ex-colonies, regarded as under developed in all other…

— George Mikes

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as…

— Bert Holldobler

And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in…

— Samuel Adams

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.…

— Ho Chi Minh

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas.…

— J. F. C. Fuller

For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing…

— Richard K. Morgan

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must…

— Woodrow Wilson

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I…

— Robert Redford

The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means…

— Kwame