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

Will,

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Will quotes

"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Will, First

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Will, Evil, Fate, Justice

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Will, World

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Will,

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Will, Wit

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Will,

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Will,

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

Will,

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Will,

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Will,

Explore more quotes by Mary Douglas

"The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization."

Idea

"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

"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."

Old

"The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting."

History

"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."

Enemy

"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."

Society

"If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization."

Change

"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment."

Environment

"It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements."

Religion

"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."

Community