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If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe
There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
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.
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.
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
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.
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
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
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.
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.
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 a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
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.
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.
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.
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.
Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.
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.
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.
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
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.
To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
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
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.
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
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.
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