Puritanism Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
— James Russell Lowell
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There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
— Susie Bright
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We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
— Leland Ryken
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed…
— James Bryce
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When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not…
— Leland Ryken
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Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
— Emma Goldman
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Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until…
— Emma Goldman
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the…
— Hugh Hefner
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
— H. L. Mencken
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Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you…
— Miuccia Prada
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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the…
— Robertson Davies
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force…
— Anais Nin
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Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
— Christopher Moore
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for…
— H. L. Mencken
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One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.
— Tom Paulin
Who Wrote These Puritanism Quotes
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