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1. "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. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
2. "Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
3. "In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
4. "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." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
5. "Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
6. "Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
7. "The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
8. "Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
9. "We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
10. "Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
11. "The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
12. "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 problem is assimilation." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
13. "First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
14. "Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
15. "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 subordinate role for blacks." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
16. "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 in particular develop economically." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
17. "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
18. "Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
19. "Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
20. "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?" ~ Samuel P. Huntington
21. "It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
22. "The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
23. "The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
24. "They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
25. "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." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
26. "Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
27. "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 whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
28. "Collective will supplants individual whim" ~ Samuel P. Huntington
29. "Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in contrast, are special: the classical legacy, Christianity, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, civil society." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
30. "Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle." ~ Samuel P. Huntington
31. "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 past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations" ~ Samuel P. Huntington
32. "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 is immoral; and it is dangerous." ~ Samuel P. Huntington

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