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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 34 quotes by Mary Douglas Dame Mary Douglas Born Margaret Mary Tew (1921-03-25)25 March 1921 Sanremo Died 16 May 2007(2007-05-16) (aged 86) London Nationality British Fields Social anthropology, Comparative religion Institutions University College London, Russell Sage Foundation, Northwestern University, Princeton University Alma mater University of Oxford Doctoral advisor E. E. Evans-Pritchard Known for Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols, Cultural theory of... Read full biography of Mary Douglas → 1 2 3 Ctrl → If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. 0 Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are... → 0 Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. 0 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... → 0 Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between... → 0 The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. 0 I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. 0 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. 0 Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. 0 An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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