Christian Quote by Susie Bright

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

— James Young

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

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

“The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans…

— Kurt Andersen

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

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

— Joe Mantegna

“A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

— Leland Ryken

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

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