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.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.