Quotes by : Mary Douglas

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are....

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

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent....

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

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

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

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions.....

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