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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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

Susie Bright

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.

Isabella Rossellini

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Emma Goldman

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

Tom Paulin

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?

Miuccia Prada