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Mary Douglas

"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."

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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

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"I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul."

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"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

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"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

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"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"

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"We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that."

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"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

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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."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements."
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"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place."
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"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
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"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
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"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
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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."
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"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
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