Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn't do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can't take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

They have the troops; we only have the arguments.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

The US became arrogant because of what it owns of weapons and technology. For that, it handles the world as it pleases, and changes the ideologies of people, their habits and ethics in order to spread Western culture at the expense of Islam.

I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong.

I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not out of wickedness, but because everybody else in Eurasia was so completely destroyed by the Second World War. Economically, that was quite a useful time for the US, so they ended up in the position of enormous power. And like any great power, they're going to act in their own interests. The problem is due to what the business community wants, which is to make as much money as they can out of what other people do and pay as little as possible for it.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.