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The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

— William H. O'Connell

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

— James Young

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

— Leland Ryken

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

— Joe Mantegna

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

— Susie Bright

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

— Leland Ryken

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

— Lord Melbourne

✗Opposing Perspectives

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

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