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

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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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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – 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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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas

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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes

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Jealousy is the great exaggerator. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783

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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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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. – Van Wyck Brooks

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