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When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century… — James Hillman
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had… — Oscar Wilde
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for… — Robert Henri
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color.… — Dorothy Draper
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only… — Liam O'Flaherty
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things… — Ralph Caplan
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Charles Spurgeon
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their… — Benjamin Franklin
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others… — Gore Vidal
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. — Wendell Phillips
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at… — Garrison Keillor
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future… — Mark Thornton
Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven. — John Bunyan
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then… — Ken Blanchard
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an… — Leland Ryken
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. — Leland Ryken
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was… — Leland Ryken
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth. — Leland Ryken
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a… — James Young

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