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"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?"
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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."
"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."
"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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"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."
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