Quote by Mary Douglas
I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream so

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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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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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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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Science
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. – Luc de Clapiers

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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Society

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. – Milton Friedman

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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. – H. L. Mencken

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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