‘Suffering and Speech’ in Catherine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (eds) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings.
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Source: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

The Inquisition, 1868 The Sword and the Trowel http://www.spurgeon.org/s_and_t/inq.htm

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")

Letter to Maurice W. Moe (16 January 1915), in Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 10
Non-Fiction, Letters

Letter to James F. Morton (8 March 1923), in Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 211-212
Non-Fiction, Letters

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (9 October 1931), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 423
Non-Fiction, Letters

Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 9

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State, p. 624
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”
Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
Context: The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y. M. C. A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 53
1910s

“I was paraphrasing what Mark Schorer said about Sinclair Lewis,” Bruce replied.
“The Joker’s Greatest Triumph”.
Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)

"5th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzmbnxtnMB4, Youtube (January 14, 2008)
Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism

As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963) http://books.google.com/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
"Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century" originally published in Zone (1992)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)

Part IV, Ch. 3
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932)

The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate (1799)
Broken Lights p15-16 Diaries 1951.

Laborare est orare.
Part IV, Ch. 3
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
“Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.”
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

“Fine Writing,” p. 306
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 76
1910s

Vol. I, ch. 3
History of England (1849–1861)

Source: Oak Openings or The bee-hunter (1848), Ch. XI

Part IV, Ch. 3
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

Political Register (27 February 1802).

“It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."”
Isaiah 30.
Commentaries

pg. 53
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown

Introduction to "The Santa Claus Compromise".
The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)

From a speech https://coolidgefoundation.org/resources/early-speeches-1890-1918-17/ delivered on Bunker Hill Day (17 June 1918).
1910s, Speech on Bunker Hill Day (17 June 1918)

Part IV, Ch. 4
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

"Listen, Marxist!" (May 1969); also available in Post Scarcity Anarchism (1971).
Listen, Marxist!
Preface To The First Edition, p. xiii
The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977

“[Of Guizot] A Puritan born in France by mistake.”
Guizot
Biographical Studies (1907)

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
"Bernard Shaw," p. 103
Profiles (1990)

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
Speech at the dinner of the Pilgrim Society (21 December 1855), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips https://archive.org/details/speecheslectures7056phil (1884), p. 229
1850s

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
As quoted in an interview in The New York Times (21 November 1930)

Tim Brouk (September 6, 2007) "Jim Gaffigan returns to his old stomping grounds, Purdue", Journal and Courier, pp. 1, 2D.

Pt. I, Ch. 9 Charles IX and Philip II
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), pp. 32-33
"Back to the Heady Future", review of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, originally published in the [London] Daily Telegraph (1993)
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)

1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)

Part IV, Ch. 3
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

Part IV, Ch. 2
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)

"The Family and Feminism".
The Art of Being Ruled (1926)

Les filles élevées comme vous l'avez été, dans la contrainte et les pratiques religieuses, ont soif de la liberté, désirent le bonheur, et le bonheur dont elles jouissent n'est jamais aussi grand ni aussi beau que celui qu'elles ont rêvé. De pareilles filles font de mauvaises femmes.
Source: A Daughter of Eve (1839), Ch. 2: Sisterly Confidences.

From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

Non-Fiction, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
“Liberalism and its Discontents,” pp. 20-21.
Outside Ethics (2005)

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
February “EAT IT IN GOOD HEALTH”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Broken Lights Letters 1951-59.

1940s–present, Introduction to Nietzsche's The Antichrist

What I Saw in America (1922)
Context: The truth is that prohibitions might have done far less harm as prohibitions, if a vague association had not arisen, on some dark day of human unreason, between prohibition and progress. And it was the progress that did the harm, not the prohibition. Men can enjoy life under considerable limitations, if they can be sure of their limited enjoyments; but under Progressive Puritanism we can never be sure of anything. The curse of it is not limitation; it is unlimited limitation. The evil is not in the restriction; but in the fact that nothing can ever restrict the restriction. The prohibitions are bound to progress point by point; more and more human rights and pleasures must of necessity be taken away; for it is of the nature of this futurism that the latest fad is the faith of the future, and the most fantastic fad inevitably makes the pace. Thus the worst thing in the seventeenth-century aberration was not so much Puritanism as sectarianism. It searched for truth not by synthesis but by subdivision. It not only broke religion into small pieces, but it was bound to choose the smallest piece.
"Fads and Public Opinion"

Diary entry, 20 January 1940, from The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood, vol I: 1939 - 1960, edited by Katherine Bucknell, p. 84<!-- >
Context: If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the war, the power which it gives to all the things I hate — the newspapers, the politicians, the puritans, the scoutmasters, the middle-aged merciless spinsters. I fear the way I might behave, if I were exposed to this atmosphere. I shrink from the duty of opposition. I am afraid I should be reduced to a chattering enraged monkey, screaming back hate at their hate.

New Fragments (1892)
Context: To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.<!--p.34

Direct Action (1912)
Context: The Puritans had accused the Quakers of "troubling the world by preaching peace to it." They refused to pay church taxes; they refused to bear arms; they refused to swear allegiance to any government. (In so doing they were direct actionists, what we may call negative direct actionists.) So the Puritans, being political actionists, passed laws to keep them out, to deport, to fine, to imprison, to mutilate, and finally, to hang them. And the Quakers just kept on coming (which was positive direct action); and history records that after the hanging of four Quakers, and the flogging of Margaret Brewster at the cart's tail through the streets of Boston, "the Puritans gave up trying to silence the new missionaries"; that "Quaker persistence and Quaker non-resistance had won the day."
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: When the Pequots resisted the migration of settlers into the Connecticut Valley in 1637, a party of Puritans surrounded the Pequot village and set fire to it. About five hundred Indians were burned to death or shot while trying to escape... The woods were then combed for any Pequots who had managed to survive, and these were sold into slavery. Cotton Mather was grateful to the Lord that "on this day we have sent six hundred heathen souls to hell."
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)

“Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There’s something in this richness that I hate.”
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Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), Wild Peaches
Context: Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There’s something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
There’s something in my very blood that owns
Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate,
A thread of water, churned to milky spate
Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.

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

[The Puritan Age and Rule in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1629-1685, https://books.google.com/books?id=toM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31, 31, 1888, Houghton, Mifflin, 978-0-7222-0646-1]

[Narrative and Critical History of America: English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689, edited by Justin Winsor, 1889, vol. III, The Religious Element in the Settlemen of New England.—Puritans and Separatists in England by George E. Ellis, 219–243, https://books.google.com/books?id=NhBkAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA229, 1884, Houghton, Mifflin and Company] (quote from p. 229)
“Like all neo-puritans you have a mind like an open drain.”
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 44, “A Firm Decision to Go Into the Wagon-Fixing Business in a Big Way” (p. 132)