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“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.”

People Men Important Evil Literature Force Fear Tasks Hypocrisy Destructive Oppressed Free Man Perversion Puritanism

Author:Anais Nin

“Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.”

Evoke Puritanism

Book:Practical Demonkeeping

Source: Practical Demonkeeping

“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.”

Men Happiness Religion Honest He Man Capacity Bottom Superiors Impulse Puritanism

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.”

Mistake Noble Mood Fads Puritanism

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

Persons Righteous Wrong Things Indignation Puritan Puritanism Righteous Indignation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.”

Mean Christian Belief Religious Work Prayer Chiefs Ministers Preacher Revival Prayer Puritanism

Author:Thomas Hooker

“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”

Believe Religion Religious Liberty Knowing Democracy Seeds Eggs Religious Liberty Puritanism

Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

Source: Among My Books: Six Essays

“There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.”

Has Beens Christian Morality Criticism Distance Motherhood Distance Relationship Puritanism Christian Morality

Author:Susie Bright

“The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.”

Sweet Garden Rose Casts Puritan Pluck Puritanism Cast Away

Book:Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)

Source: Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)

“We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.”

Home Results Fit Drug Libertarian Debate Damage Pills Puritanism

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.”

Mean Together Stuff Modern Puritan Puritanism

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”

World Feels Helping Dream Universe Wealth Poverty Violence New York Waste Indifference Technological Exploits Rotten Futility Hygiene Puritanism Senility

Book:America

Source: America

“Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.”

Movement Vigorous Puritanism

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“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.”

Long Three Lost Serious Comfort Spring England Winter Charm Far Away Anticipation Long Ago Novelty Calendars February New England Puritanism

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“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.”

Men Humans Sin Views Doors Atheism Human Nature Originals Instruments Positive Atheism Original Sin Hearty Puritanism

Author:James Bryce

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