69 Quotes by Peter L. Berger

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

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

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

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

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

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

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

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.