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I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#i can #model #opportunity #person #positive

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#i #important #interested #not interested #superficiality

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#go #great #great organization #organization #phases

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

#be true #because #feel #going #i

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

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

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

#bogged #command #confident #defined #down

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

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

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

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

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

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

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human