Samuel P. Huntington quotes - page 2

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, should be incorporated into western institutions? (Samuel P. Huntington)
In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. View quote
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is. View quote
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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 and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? View quote
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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 Revolution. View quote
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In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced Anti-Semitism against Jews. View quote
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In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. View quote
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The futures of both peace and Civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political, spiritual, and intellectual leaders of the world's major civilizations. View quote
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People define themselves in terms of ancestry, religion, language, history, values, customs, and institutions. They identify with cultural groups: tribes, ethnic groups, religious communities, nations, and, at the broadest level, civilizations. People use politics not just to advance their interests but also to define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not and often only when we know whom we are against. View quote
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When civilizations first emerge, their people are usually vigorous, dynamic, brutal, mobile, and expansionist. They are relatively uncivilized. View quote
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The most important groupings of states are no longer the three blocs of the Cold War but rather the world's seven or eight major civilizations. (Samuel P. Huntington)
A multicultural world is unavoidable because global empire is impossible. The preservation of the United States and the West requires the renewal of Western identity. The security of the world requires acceptance of global multiculturality. View quote
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Those who do not recognize fundamental divides, however, are doomed to be frustrated by them. View quote
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Muslim governments, even the bunker governments friendly to and dependent on the West, have been strikingly reticent when it comes to condemning terrorist acts against the West. On the other side, European governments and publics have largely supported and rarely criticized actions the United States has taken against its Muslim opponents, in striking contrast to the strenuous opposition they often expressed to American actions against the Soviet Union and communism during the Cold War. View quote
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Cultures are relative; morality is absolute. Cultures, as Michael Walzer has argued, are "thick”; they prescribe institutions and behavior patterns to guide humans in the paths which are right in a particular society. Above, beyond, and growing out of this maximalist morality, however, is a "thin” minimalist morality that embodies "reiterated features of particular thick or maximal moralities.”. View quote
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In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame. View quote
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. View quote
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In the emerging era, clashes of civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war. View quote
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At least at a basic "thin” morality level, some commonalities exist between Asia and the West. In addition, as many have pointed out, whatever the degree to which they divided humankind, the world's major religions - Western Christianity, Orthodoxy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism - also share key values in common. If humans are ever to develop a universal civilization, it will emerge gradually through the exploration and expansion of these commonalities. View quote
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Instead of promoting the supposedly universal features of one civilization, the requisites for cultural coexistence demand a search for what is common to most civilizations. In a multicivilizational world, the constructive course is to renounce universalism, accept diversity, and seek commonalities. View quote
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Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture. (Samuel P. Huntington)
The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future. View quote
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In the post-Cold War world, for the first time in history, global politics has become multipolar and multicivilizational. View quote
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Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation. View quote
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. View quote
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