All Samuel P. Huntington Quotes
- 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… Bloody
- 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… Belief
- 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… Actors
- Collective will supplants individual whim Collective
- Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate. Begins
- Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. Center
- 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… Accepting
- 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… Boundaries
- 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… All
- 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… America
- 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,… Big
- 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… Assimilation
- 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… Clearly
- In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. Amount
- 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. Aggravation
- Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. American
- Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is. All
- 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;… America
- 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… Argue
- 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… Accepting
- The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized… Antiwar
- Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history… Argued
- Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. Disappointed
- And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies… Asian
- The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. Asian