The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics. - Samuel P. Huntington
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
- Samuel P. Huntington
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre… - Samuel P. Huntington
Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre…
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… - Samuel P. Huntington
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…
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate. - Samuel P. Huntington
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
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; it is a disappointment.… - Samuel P. Huntington
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; it is a disappointment.…
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 civil… - Samuel P. Huntington
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 civil…
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed. - Samuel P. Huntington
Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. - Samuel P. Huntington
Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, im… - Samuel P. Huntington
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, im…
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