Quotes by Puritan The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his. Artemas Ward puritan despotism land Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! Bill Maher puritan going-away country To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. D. H. Lawrence puritan all-things That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. Don Marquis puritan saws atheism Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. F. Scott Fitzgerald puritan crooks mad A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. Gilbert K. Chesterton puritan righteous persons Art is hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass puritan art-is art Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass puritan irrational art It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime. Friedrich Nietzsche puritan moral spirit Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe. Heywood Broun puritan devil thinking Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. Janet Montgomery puritan want way I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Janet Montgomery puritan outspoken To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism John Lane puritan enchantment simple The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. Leland Ryken priorities-in-life puritan firsts The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth. Leland Ryken puritan wealth obsessed The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. Margaret Atwood puritan harvard book It's not a performance to impress the Puritans Martin Tyler puritan impress performances 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 puritan obsessed sex The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Mason Cooley puritan pleasure duty The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. Max Weber puritan ethics earning 12»
