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Mary Douglas quotes: If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Mary Douglas quotes: Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Mary Douglas quotes: Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Mary Douglas quotes: I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas quotes: Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Mary Douglas quotes: Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Mary Douglas quotes: Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Mary Douglas quotes: Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Mary Douglas quotes: 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.

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.

Mary Douglas quotes: An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

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

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

Mary Douglas quotes: I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas quotes: It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas quotes: Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Mary Douglas quotes: Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Mary Douglas quotes: Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Mary Douglas quotes: Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

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

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

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

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

Mary Douglas quotes: Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Mary Douglas quotes: If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

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

Mary Douglas quotes: Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Mary Douglas quotes: When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Mary Douglas quotes: The human body is always treated as an image of society.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.