Mary Douglas Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Mary Douglas

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

Related topics: Change

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

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.
- Mary Douglas

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

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

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

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness,
injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand
with increasing prosperity.
Expectations are dashed.
What can I say!
- Mary Douglas

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Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.
- Mary Douglas

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

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society.
The community makes God into the image it wants,
vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just,
and so on.
- Mary Douglas

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

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

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

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

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

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
- Mary Douglas

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
- Mary Douglas

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

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

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

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 are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
- Mary Douglas

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

Behind a leader there must be followers,
but they should always be on the lookout for the main
chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
- Mary Douglas

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
- Mary Douglas

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private,
it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever,
least of all to organized religion.
- Mary Douglas

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

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

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.
- Mary Douglas

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.
- Mary Douglas

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.
- Mary Douglas

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 a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
- Mary Douglas

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.
- Mary Douglas

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 rituals and music and preaching,
to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
- Mary Douglas

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society
makes our population consist of more and more isolates.
This is because of the infrastructure of the economy,
especially electronic communications.
- Mary Douglas

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

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