Bigger Quote 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…

— Peter L. Berger

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

— Peter L. Berger

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

— 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…

— Peter L. Berger

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Peter L. Berger