Backlash Quote by Michel Foucault

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with…

— Leland Ryken

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

— Joe Mantegna

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does…

— Leland Ryken

“The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important aspects of the phenomenon we call Puritanism.…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Perversity, sadism, sexual aberration, etc., are parts of the nomenclature of the human spirit—just like altruism, fellowship, love, and all that. No, I’m not…

— Edward Lee

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

— Thomas Merton

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and…

— Edward M. Hallowell

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

— Florence King

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

— Pete Buttigieg