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.
Peter L. BergerWe also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
Peter L. BergerThe past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter L. BergerSome people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
Peter L. BergerIn all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
Peter L. BergerHe who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.
Peter L. Berger