"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."

Blame, Body, Information, Network

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"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."

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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."

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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."

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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

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"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

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"You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"

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"I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure."

Kathleen Parker, American Journalist

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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

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"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

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"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment."

Environment

"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?"

Love

"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."

Marriage

"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."

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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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"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."

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"What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other."

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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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"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."

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