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“Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony

“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

“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

“If you tell people the world is complicated, you're not doing your job as a social scientist. They already know it's complicated. Your job is to distill it, simplify it.”
― Samuel P. Huntington

“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.”
― Eric Hobsbawn

“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.”
― Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”
― Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age Of Empire 1875-1914

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road