Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

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

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

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

He 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.

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.