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Mary Douglas

"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."

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"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."

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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

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"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."

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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
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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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"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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"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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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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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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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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