"Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious……" — Samuel P. Huntington
"Partial truths or half-truths 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 Falsehood 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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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
— Abu Bakr
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound…
— Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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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