“It is the spirit of Salem—the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal—infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world.”

Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It is the spirit of Salem—the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal—infec…" by Michael Moorcock?
Michael Moorcock photo
Michael Moorcock 224
English writer, editor, critic 1939

Related quotes

Coventry Patmore photo

“The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

Magna Moralia XLIX, p. 201.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“What nevertheless subsists is the desire of an absolute ideal form, a form which can adapt itself to any setting and to any scale.”

Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna)

Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 7.

George Long photo
Thomas Mann photo

“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”

Speech, "The War and the Future" (1940); published in Order of the Day (1942)

John Henry Newman photo
Giordano Bruno photo

“It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

As translated by Paul Harrison <!-- Fifth dialogue ?-->
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: The Universe is one, infinite, immobile. The absolute potential is one, the act is one, the form or soul is one, the material or body is one, the thing is one, the being in one, one is the maximum and the best... It is not generated, because there is no other being it could desire or hope for, since it comprises all being. It does not grow corrupt. because there is nothing else into which it could change, given that it is itself all things. It cannot diminish or grow, since it is infinite.

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce photo
Clifford D. Simak photo

“Perversity, she thought. Could that have been what happened to the human race — a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? Could the human race, quite out of hand and with no sufficient reason, have turned its back upon everything that had built humanity?”

Highway of Eternity (1986)
Context: Perversity, she thought. Could that have been what happened to the human race — a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? Could the human race, quite out of hand and with no sufficient reason, have turned its back upon everything that had built humanity? Or was it, perhaps, no more than second childhood, a shifting of the burden off one's shoulders and going back to the selfishness of the child who romped and frolicked without thought of consequence or liability?

Barack Obama photo
Ruhollah Khomeini photo

Related topics