“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
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“ For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application — why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. ”
- Howard Nemerov- Copy
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“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas Macaulay- Copy
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“ It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically — for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist — but then what isn't? ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers — three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. ”
- John Frame- Copy
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“ Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. ”
- Hans J. Morgenthau- Copy
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“ A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
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“ The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 337
“ We never "become one with God" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God. ”
- Paul Twitchell- Copy
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“ The English (I cannot speak of the Scots) are moralistic, and have made moralizing their discipline since the reformation. They like to be told what to think, and their literary heroes are moralists. ”
- Howard Barker- Copy
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“ There is a certain reverence for the sociopath as a major cultural type in American society, along with the frontiersman, the puritan and the outlaw. ”
- Robert Stone- Copy
- 58
“ The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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