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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, su

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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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

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Religion
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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

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Religion
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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Science
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and thats not where equality comes from. – Matt Bomer

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. – George Orwell

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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. – Benjamin Tucker

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