The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

2 " 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 , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

3 " Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology. "

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

4 " The West is the only civilization which has substantial interests in every other civilization or region and has the ability to affect the politics, economics, and security of every other civilization or region. "

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

5 " 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 , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

6 " 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 , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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

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

8 " 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. "

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

9 " 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 , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

10 " God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics also so distinctly separated. In Islam, God is Caesar; in China and Japan, Caesar is God; in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar’s junior partner. "

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

11 " There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. "

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

12 " One grim Weltanschauung for this new era was well expressed by the Venetian nationalist demagogue in Michael Dibdin’s novel, Dead Lagoon: “There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven. "

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

13 " What, however, makes culture and ideology attractive? They become attractive when they are seen as rooted in material success and influence. Soft power is power only when it rests on a foundation of hard power. Increases in hard economic and military power produce enhanced self-confidence, arrogance, and belief in the superiority of one’s own culture or soft power compared to those of other peoples and greatly increase its attractiveness to other peoples. Decreases in economic and military power lead to self-doubt, crises of identity, and efforts to find in other cultures the keys to economic, military, and political success. "

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

14 " reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies. "

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

15 " 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.”16 "

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

16 " The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness. "

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

17 " The philosophical assumptions, underlying values, social relations, customs, and overall outlooks on life differ significantly among civilizations. The revitalization of religion throughout much of the world is reinforcing these cultural differences. Cultures can change, and the nature of their impact on politics and economics can vary from one period to another. Yet the major differences in political and economic development among civilizations are clearly rooted in their different cultures. East Asian economic success has its source in East Asian culture, as do the difficulties East Asian societies have had in achieving stable democratic political systems. Islamic culture explains in large part the failure of democracy to emerge in much of the Muslim world. "

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

18 " The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former. "

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

19 " On January 3, 1992, a meeting of Russian and American scholars took place in the auditorium of a government building in Moscow. Two weeks earlier the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and the Russian Federation had become an independent country. As a result, the statue of Lenin which previously graced the stage of the auditorium had disappeared and instead the flag of the Russian Federation was now displayed on the front wall. The only problem, one American observed, was that the flag had been hung upside down. "

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

20 " In the post-Cold War world flags count and so do other symbols of cultural identity, including crosses, crescents, and even head coverings, because culture counts, and cultural identity is what is most meaningful to most people. "

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