69 Quotes by Peter L. Berger

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

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

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

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

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

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

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

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

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