Quote by Mary Douglas
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were

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

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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. – Mary Douglas

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People can do all kinds of things that maybe arent wise in hindsight because of jealousy. – Kristin Bauer van Straten

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. – Aeschylus

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. – Elizabeth Bowen

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I do not say anything from jealousy. – Anna Held

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