Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by Samuel P. Huntington Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008) was an influential conservative political scientist from the United States of America whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order. Read full biography of Samuel P. Huntington → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. 0 The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. 0 Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. 0 Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence, they are less likely to be accepted as the... → 0 Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. 0 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... → 0 And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian... → 0 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... → 0 In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world. 0 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. 0 We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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26 quotes by Samuel P. Huntington