Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Muslim majority countries plagued by religious puritanism, by sexual sickness, by smothered invention.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare Copy Share Image
“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Puritanism,” wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” Who” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
“The first indication of unraveling Puritanism occurred in Andover in 1681 when Pastor Frances Dane significantly reduced his preaching. There is no… — Howard Kaepplein Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
“Every stimulus which quickens the imagination and raises the spirits, is as necessary to our life as air. It invigorates the body,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true. The Church, as well as Puritanism, has fought the flesh… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker Copy Share Image
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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