Body Quote by Mary Douglas Download Open image “The human body is always treated as an image of society.” — Mary Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Body Treated Community Human body Humans Image Society Nature of man Society Treated
Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Don't change your body to get respect from society. Instead let's change society to respect our bodies.” — Golda Poretsky Copy Share Image
Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures,… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But your body… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful,… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
![“I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
