Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Group action -- yes; group thinking -- no.

In an over-organized society, the individual is altogether crushed out of existence. He gains the whole wealth of social thought around him and loses his own soul.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

We are human beings, not ants.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.