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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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas

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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. – Mary Douglas

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Envy is a waste of time. – Author Unknown

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The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. – Richard Perle

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis

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People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isnt going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what its all about? Jealousy. – Summer Altice

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Im cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally. – Dave Chappelle

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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