Quotes by Austrian authors

"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"

"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"

"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 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"

"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"

"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"

"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization"

"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"

"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes"

"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"

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

"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization"

"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"

"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"

"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally"

"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"

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

"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"

"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic"

"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"

"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe"

"You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that"

"Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore"

"Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle"

"We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter"

"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy"

"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice"

"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single"

"The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists"

"Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone"