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

— Anonymous

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

— H.L. Mencken

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in…

— Leland Ryken

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

— Alexander Hume

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Adam Nicolson

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort,…

— Robert Henri

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -…

— Hugh Hefner

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

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young