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Mary Douglas

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
— Mary Douglas art
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
— Mary Douglas living
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
— Mary Douglas men
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
— Mary Douglas men
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
— Mary Douglas
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
— Mary Douglas love
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
— Mary Douglas justice
Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
— Mary Douglas evil
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
— Mary Douglas art
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
— Mary Douglas wit
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
— Mary Douglas life
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
— Mary Douglas funny
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
— Mary Douglas science
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
— Mary Douglas history
Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
— Mary Douglas change
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
— Mary Douglas man
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.
— Mary Douglas work
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
— Mary Douglas power
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
— Mary Douglas terrorism
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
— Mary Douglas religion
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
— Mary Douglas war
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
— Mary Douglas religion
Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.
— Mary Douglas work
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
— Mary Douglas religion
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.
— Mary Douglas life

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