An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects about his… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Different objects present themselves to consciousness as constituents of different spheres of reality. I recognize the fellowmen I must deal with in the course… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“It is in the legitimation of death that the transcending potency of symbolic universes manifests itself most clearly, and the fundamental terror-assuaging character of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
