Peter Berger Quotes

We See The Puppets Dancing On Their Miniature Stage, Moving Up And Down As The Strings Pull Them Around, Following The Prescribed Course Of Their Various Little Parts. We Learn To Understand The Logic Of This Theater And We Find Ourselves In Its Motions. We Locate Ourselves In Society And Thus Recognize Our Own Position As We Hang From Its Subtle Strings. For A Moment We See Ourselves As Puppets Indeed. But Then We Grasp A Decisive Difference Between The Puppet Theater And Our Own Drama. Unlike The 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 Step Toward Freedom. And In This Same Act We Find The Conclusive Justification Of Sociology As A Humanistic Discipline

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