Best Mary Douglas Quotes
- 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… Achieve
- 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… Aside
- 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… Bazaars
- When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. Grieve
- Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. Any
- Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. Day
- 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. Arrangements
- If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. Change
- An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. Escalating
- 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… Enemies
- Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. Accommodation