"Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious……" — Samuel P. Huntington
"Partial truth or Half-truth are often more insidious than total falsehoods."
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40 Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel P. Huntington has 40 quotes on this site.
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It…
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In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three…
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological…
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Collective will supplants individual whim
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Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human…
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The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western…
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These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national…
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to…
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best,…
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly…
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a…
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More Falsehoods Quotes
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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out…
— Anthony de Mello
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There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
— Michel de Montaigne
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to…
— George Soros
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Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
— Samuel Johnson
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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon]…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It…
— William Hazlitt
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