A Quote by Christopher Moore

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Christopher Moore

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Like Nothing Puritanism

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Christopher Moore
American - Writer
Born: 1957

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

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Barry Humphries

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

Carl Jung

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

Jim Rohn

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Aldous Huxley

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Rachael Taylor

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Jim Rohn

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

Lucretius

Just like music evokes emotion, so can garments.

Donatella Versace

Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.

Gerhard Richter

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

Leland Ryken

I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his in 'Maari.'

Vivek

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

Robert Englund

Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. I was a fundamentalist in high school.