Peter L. Berger

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

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

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.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.