Mary Douglas Quotes

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.