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

- Peter L. Berger

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…

- Peter L. Berger

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

- Peter L. Berger

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…

- Peter L. Berger

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 …

- Peter L. Berger

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

- Peter L. Berger

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

- Peter L. Berger

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

- Peter L. Berger

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…

- Peter L. Berger