Peter L. Berger Quotes

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.