Quote by Mary Douglas
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – Mary Douglas

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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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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

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Equality
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. – Herbert Read

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

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Religion

And what is religion, you might ask. Its a technology of living. – Toni Cade Bambara

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The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist. – Julie Burchill

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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. – Johan Huizinga

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