Mary Douglas Quotes

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

I'm the bad guy of the division.

If the family sticks together, things are easy. If not, it will fall apart. There are several examples in history. Take Troy or take Caesar.

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

I've seen Thompson before, as I keep my eye on everyone in the division, as I might one day fight them.

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

I'm the most hated guy in the division.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

I want the biggest fights possible. If guys don't want to fight me, then I can't get them. But it's not on me.

If I don't have a division in the UFC, I'm going to go to another company like Rizin or Bellator or another organization where they have my division.

It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition happened because of the rulers, fueled by a few powerful families on both sides who stood to gain. It is the politicians that keep everyone fighting.

I don't think that humankind is worthy of trust when we can't let go of war, draw borders between neighboring countries, seek to become richer than others, find joy in defeating others at sports, and choose someone of the opposite gender based on their appearance.

Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.

We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

I don't think that anything that anyone is doing today that is being pointed at as the "enemy" or "the problem" is as dangerous to our future as the fact that there are so many pointed fingers. The pointed finger is the enemy.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.