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> [“The cultural situation in America today (and indeed in all Western societies) is determined by the cultural earthquake of the nineteen-sixties, the consequences of which are very much in evidence. What began as a counter-culture only some thirty years ago…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/the-cultural-situation-in-america-today-and-indeed-in-all-western/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

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> [I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/i-think-what-i-and-most-other-sociologists-of-religion-wrote-in-the/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

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## Other authors on 1960s

## More by Peter L. Berger

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/in-sum-the-actor-identifies-with-the-socially-objectivated/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/in-acute-suffering-the-need-for-meaning-is-as-strong-or-stronger-than/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/in-all-advanced-industrial-societies-education-has-become-the-single/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“Different objects present themselves to consciousness as constituents of different spheres of reality. I recognize the fellowmen I must deal with in the course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/different-objects-present-themselves-to-consciousness-as-constituents/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/f-a-hayek-is-probably-the-most-prominent-advocate-of-capitalism-in/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/india-is-the-most-religious-country-in-the-world-sweden-is-the-most/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/it-is-in-the-legitimation-of-death-that-the-transcending-potency-of/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/an-economy-oriented-toward-production-for-market-exchange-provides/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/it-has-been-true-in-western-societies-and-it-seems-to-be-true/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/on-the-one-hand-man-is-a-body-in-the-same-way-that-this-may-be-said/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/one-of-the-traits-of-sophistication-is-the-capacity-to-cross-borders/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/all-human-activity-is-subject-to-habitualization-any-action-that-is/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/language-is-capable-of-becoming-the-objective-repository-of-vast/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/activity-becomes-process-choices-become-destiny-men-then-live-in-the/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

> [“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men, nothing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/his-consuming-interest-remains-in-the-world-of-men-their-institutions/)

[Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/)

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