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

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

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

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

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.