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But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. -- Joe Mantegna
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. -- George Orwell
American society is still puritanical. -- Nick Nolte
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. -- Lord Melbourne
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. -- Tom Selleck
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -- James Buchan
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. -- Youssef Ziedan
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. -- Penn Jillette
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction. -- Kenneth Oppel
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. -- Kate Millett
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. -- Mark Ruffalo
We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling. -- Jenji Kohan
Good old-fashioned, puritanical work guilt is, for me, a better colleague than any Muse. If I reach my weekly word target by Friday afternoon, then the weekend is guilt-free. -- Jim Crace
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. -- Tom Stoppard
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. -- Tom Ford
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It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long. -- Alfonso Cuaron
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical -- Tom Selleck
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. -- Muriel Spark
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. -- Rachel Kushner
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. -- Florence King
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. -- Camille Paglia
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. -- Mary McCarthy
Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it. -- Nenia Campbell
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh. -- Maureen Howard
We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it. -- Amber Heard
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism. -- Susan Sontag

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