In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion--or a new form of Christianity--based on faith in financial mi...racles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as... a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of "decency." The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressi...ve the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should I go to England with her? Because you bid me, or because she wishes it,--or simply because England is the most damnable..., Puritanical, God-forgotten, and stupid country on the face of the globe?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spo...ntaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration). Lovemaking cannot be totally classical unless it is also totally baroque, since you cannot abandon all restraints and so attain a classical intensity. In practice, however, most people are more inclined to one mode than to the other. A very classical person will be incompatible with a very baroque person unless each can bring out the other's latent opposite side. Two people who are very one-sided in the same direction can be extremely compatible but risk missing a whole dimension of experience unless they get so deeply into one mode that it becomes the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord Angelo is precise, Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses... That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see If power change purpose, what our seemers be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Toby Belch. Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale? Feste. Yes, by Saint Anne, an...d ginger shall be hot i'the mouth, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »