Puritanical Society Quotes

#1. But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Joe Mantegna

#2. The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.

Bill O'Reilly

#3. American society is still puritanical.

Nick Nolte

#4. We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Barack Obama

#5. Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

Annie Lennox

#6. Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Richard G. Scott

#7. All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

Carl L. Becker

#8. Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#9. The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

#11. [Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

Lord Kelvin