Quote by Mary Douglas
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

Other quotes by Mary Douglas

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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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

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

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Equality
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. – Tarja Halonen

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Equality

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917

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Equality

Women have a lot to say about how to advance womens rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. – Charlotte Bunch

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Equality

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A hen is only a eggs way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. – Steve Jobs

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people dont behave very well when they are afraid. – Daniel H. Wilson

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