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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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. – Mary Douglas

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Change
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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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Equality
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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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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. – Josh Billings

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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. – Ambrose Bierce

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From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. – Ludovico Ariosto

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Jealousy

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. – David Seabury

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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