Puritans Quotes

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. - Wendell Phillips

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. - Carlisle Floyd

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. - Barbara Jordan

This is a catastrophe Weapon systems activated. Puritans have invaded. This is a catastrohpe to protect against the threat. Order must be kept. - Otep

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. - Henry Louis Mencken

The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - Henry Louis Mencken

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. - Vivienne Westwood

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

He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. - Louis Kronenberger

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever. - Geoffrey Robertson