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Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. -- Leland Ryken
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. -- Molly Haskell
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. -- Emma Goldman
One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. -- Tom Paulin
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves. -- Barry Humphries
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. -- James Russell Lowell
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 happiness. -- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose. -- Max Weber
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. -- Norman Douglas
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 apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism. -- Leland Ryken
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 the entire fabric is doomed. -- Emma Goldman
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 which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. -- Anais Nin
Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing. -- Josh Fox
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration? -- Robertson Davies
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 in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. -- James Bryce
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 anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named. -- Stephen Spender
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. -- Susie Bright
Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism. -- Isabella Rossellini
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 scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. -- Hugh Hefner
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 are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not? -- Miuccia Prada
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. -- Christopher Moore
[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.' -- Alden Ehrenreich
The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse. -- Michel Foucault
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. -- John Steinbeck

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