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

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Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. – Mme. de Puixieux

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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. – Gene Tierney

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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. – Conrad Veidt

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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. – John Dryden

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