Quotes on Puritanism

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

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

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?

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.