Quote by Mary Douglas
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continua

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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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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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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Perfect love cannot be without equality. – Scottish Proverb

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Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. – Mercy Otis Warren

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. – Honore de Balzac

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Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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