There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

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

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

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

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.