Puritanical Values Quotes

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

A good, old-fashioned Presbyterian horror of self-righteousness, once a feature of American life, is nowhere to be seen.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

I've always been extremely puritanical.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

American society is still puritanical.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

The Puritan character has ever ... been willing to put restraints on freedoms when the goal, which in modern times tends to be moral uplift, requires it.

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.