Puritanical Quotes

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.

Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can be a part of helping to overcome that puritanical thing in our culture, so be it. I'm happy about it.

a moralistic bastard.

I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

It is hardly possible to exaggerate the power, as an incentive to action, which the love of luxury exercises over the majority of people. The desire for Luxury is almost universal and is constantly expanding. Things that were formerly considered Luxuries are now held to be Necessaries, and this is as it should be. The world is approaching an era when not the pressure of Necessity but the lure of Luxury must be depended upon to keep society moving onward and upward. Let us avoid Puritanical denunciation of Luxury; the Puritans were dead wrong; their drab lives led to stagnation. All of the great periods of history have been periods characterized by Luxury, by art and by the delight in beauty and splendor.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.