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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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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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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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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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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. – Emile M. Cioran

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The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. – Dorothy Dix

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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. – Washington Irving

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