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

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..

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

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness..

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 w….

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 oth….

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….

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 Swede….

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty an….

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

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 ….

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example..

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibil….

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

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….

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

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 sp….

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

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency..

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….