Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
People everywhere talk about Islam and the West. Presumably that has some relationship to reality, that these are entities that have some… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
A lot of people tend to think I'm a dogmatic ideologue, which I'm not. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The major difference for us in America with respect to Hispanic immigration is that it is so large and that it is… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such attitudes for… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
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… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image