“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of… — 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 the future not of America but of American liberalism. Most Americans, as the American public philosopher Richard Rorty has written, take pride in their country, but 'many of the exceptions to this rule are found in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
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 to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
