Samuel P. Huntington QUOTES

45 " Основният проблем за Запада не е ислямският фундаментализъм. Той е ислямът, една различна цивилизация, чието население е убедено в превъзходството на своята култура и е обхванато от мания за малоценността на своята мощ. Проблемът за исляма не е ЦРУ или Министерството на отбраната на САЩ. Той е Западът, една различна цивилизация, чието население е убедено в универсалността на своята култура и вярва, че неговата доминираща, макар и западаща мощ му вменява в дълг да разпространява западната култура в целия свят. Това са основните компоненти, които подхранват конфликта между исляма и Запада. "

― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate

47 " Los problemas de la adaptabilidad no son muy distintos en el caso de las organizaciones políticas. Un partido político gana en madurez funcional cuando su función de representación de un distrito electoral pasa a ser la representación de otro; lo mismo le ocurre cuando pasa de la oposición al gobierno. Un partido incapaz de cambiar su electorado o de llegar al poder es menos institucional como institución que otro en condiciones de hacer estos cambios. Un partido nacionalista cuya función ha sido la de promover la independencia de su país respecto del dominio colonial enfrenta una crisis de proporciones cuando alcanza su objetivo y tiene que adaptarse a la función, un tanto distinta, de gobernar un país. Es muy posible que esta transición funcional le resulte tan difícil que, aun después de la independencia, continúe dedicando buena parte de sus esfuerzos a combatir el colonialismo. El partido que actúa así es menos institucional que otro —como el Partido del Congreso— que abandona su anticolonialismo una vez logrados sus fines y se adapta con rapidez a las tareas de gobierno. La función fundamental del Partido Comunista "

― Samuel P. Huntington , Political Order in Changing Societies

49 " In this sense, English is the world’s way of communicating interculturally just as the Christian calendar is the world’s way of tracking time, Arabic numbers are the world’s way of counting, and the metric system is, for the most part, the world’s way of measuring. The use of English in this way, however, is intercultural communication; it presupposes the existence of separate cultures. A lingua franca is a way of coping with linguistic and cultural differences, not a way of eliminating them. It is a tool for communication not a source of identity and community "

― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

51 " It exalts obedience as the highest virtue of military men. The military ethic is thus pessimistic, collectivist, historically inclined, power-oriented, nationalistic, militaristic, pacifist, and instrumentalist in its view of the military profession. It is, in brief, realistic and conservative "

― Samuel P. Huntington , The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations

53 " Paradigms also generate predictions, and a crucial test of a paradigm’s validity and usefulness is the extent to which the predictions derived from it turn out to be more accurate than those from alternative paradigms. A statist paradigm, for instance, leads John Mearsheimer to predict that “the situation between Ukraine and Russia is ripe for the outbreak of security competition between them. Great powers that share a long and unprotected common border, like that between Russia and Ukraine, often lapse into competition driven by security fears. Russia and Ukraine might overcome this dynamic and learn to live together in harmony, but it would be unusual if they do. "

― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

55 " Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history "

― Samuel P. Huntington