Quotes by Peter L. Berger

Peter L. Berger

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, ‘So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Cities

Rumor

Years

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

Long

Modern

Technology

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.

Example

Real

Socialist Economy

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.

Economic

Fate

Today

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

Asia

East

People

Even if one is interested only in one’s own society, which is one’s prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Compare

Ifs

Prerogative

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

Democracy

Long

Running

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

Capitalism

Hayek

Periods

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

Definitions

Reality

Sticks

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.

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Interesting

Long

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Quotes by Peter L. Berger

Peter L. Berger

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, ‘So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

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

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.

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.

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

Even if one is interested only in one’s own society, which is one’s prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

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

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

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