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"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."
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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."
"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."
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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"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."
"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."
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
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