Puritanism Quotes - page 2

The shrewd, calculating commercialism which tries all human relations by pecuniary standards, the acquisitiveness which cannot rest while there are competitors to be conquered or profits to be won, the love of social power and hunger for economic gain-these irrepressible appetites had evoked from time immemorial the warnings and denunciations of saints and sages. Plunged in the cleansing waters of later Puritanism, the qualities which less enlightened ages had denounced as social vices emerged as economic virtues. They emerged as moral virtues as well. For the world exists not to be enjoyed, but to be conquered. Only its conqueror deserves the name of Christian. For such a philosophy, the question, [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8%3A36&version=KJV "What shall it profit a man?"] carries no sting. In winning the world, he wins the salvation of his own soul as well. (R. H. Tawney)
May it [the opposition to fine writing] be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the arts? View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
Today's despisers of free speech have their roots in a different ideology from the tribal sort that was used to justify slaveholding and Puritanism. This newer ideology began with Karl Marx-or rather, with the struggle of Marxist intellectuals to explain the failure of the European proletariat to rise in violent revolution at the outbreak of World War I. Rather than joining in solidarity with the working classes of other nations, European workers rallied in dismaying numbers to their national flags, exhausted themselves in a four-year killing spree that beggared all previous descriptions of war, and then succumbed to waves of populist fascism. The only revolution that Marxists could tease out of the charnel house of the Great War was a coup d'état in the most backward and least industrially developed empire of Europe and, even then, only by the substitution of what Vladimir Lenin called a "vanguard” of Marxist elites rather than a spontaneous uprising of the workers. View quote
Allen C. Guelzo
So long as one can use scented candy to abate the foul breath of hypocrisy, Puritanism is triumphant. View quote
Emma Goldman
It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices. View quote
Emma Goldman
With Puritanism as the constant check upon American life, neither truth nor sincerity is possible. Nothing but gloom and mediocrity to dictate human conduct, curtail natural expression, and stifle our best impulses. View quote
Emma Goldman
Imperialism Capitalism Faith Rationalism Primacy of the Spirit Materialism Idealism Sensualism Will-to-Power Will-to-Riches World as Object of Organization World as Object of Plunder Rank as Social Distinction Society as a Collection of Individuals Fulfillment of Duty "Pursuit of Happiness" Absolute Will to Biological Fertility Race-Suicide, Birth Control, Puritanism, Bohemianism Absolute Will to Increase Power Surrender to the World Hegemony of the West Hierarchy Equality Discipline Freedom, Ethical Laissez-Faire Authority Parliamentarism Aristocracy Plutocracy Society as Organic Unity Class War Sexual Polarity Feminism Europe as Imperium Petty Statism Europe as Nation Chauvinism Europe as Fatherland Petty Nationalism Order Freedom Stability Constant Motion, Business Cycles Art Practiced in Conformity with the Cultural Task "L'Art pour l'Art" Politico-Military Expansion Financial-Military-Economic Expansion. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
The shrewd, calculating commercialism which tries all human relations by pecuniary standards, the acquisitiveness which cannot rest while there are competitors to be conquered or profits to be won, the love of social power and hunger for economic gain-these irrepressible appetites had evoked from time immemorial the warnings and denunciations of saints and sages. Plunged in the cleansing waters of later Puritanism, the qualities which less enlightened ages had denounced as social vices emerged as economic virtues. They emerged as moral virtues as well. For the world exists not to be enjoyed, but to be conquered. Only its conqueror deserves the name of Christian. For such a philosophy, the question, "What shall it profit a man?" carries no sting. In winning the world, he wins the salvation of his own soul as well. View quote
R. H. Tawney
I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. View quote
Robertson Davies
You complain, I see, that I have too much acidity in my composition; and, I think, you have too much puritanism. St. Matthew, vii. 5. View quote
Joseph Ritson