#puritanical

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#orthodox #puritanical #twice

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

— Kate Millett

#behavior #code #ever #given #having

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

— Joe Mantegna

#puritanical #society #somewhat #still #ways

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. ↗

— James Buchan

#claims #monopoly #puritanical #saudi #saudi arabia

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#culture #embracing #i #know #puritanical

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#had #i #puritanical #really #strong