Samuel P. Huntington famous quotes

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#War #Tyrants #Ideas

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Taken #Reality #Expectations

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Islamic #People #Different

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Strong #Dark #Sunlight

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Immigration #May #Serious

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Years #Islam #Doe

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Half #Insidious #Partial Truth

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Essence #Civilization #Western Culture

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Country #Japan #Europe

These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Loyalty #Past #Views

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Sports #Rights #People

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Country #America #White

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Talking #People #Half

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Civilization #Aggravation #Long

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#World #West

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Country #Moving #Commitment

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Country #West #Bigs

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Powerful #War #Civilization

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Suffering #Western Culture #Three

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Drama #Writing #Civilization

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Thinking #Usa #World

Collective will supplants individual whim
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Individual #Whim #Collectives

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing, Fukuyama argued, "...:;the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.":;... The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring. (P. 31
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Struggle #Government #Ideas

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#America #People #Community

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Christian #America #Evil

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Democracy #Oligarchy #Majority

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Civilization #People #Arguing

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Disappointment #Lying #Fall

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Identity #Revolution #Dimensions