Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

Socialism and communism are now so near each other that there is hardly any difference between them. In the past they differed from each other as does liberalism from democracy

… every new form of government, fascist, communist or our own democracy had originally for its purpose the making of a world in which people could be happy and content.

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

What is the difference between democracy and democratic socialism? The same as between a chair and an electric chair.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology. It rules every aspect of life — economics, family law, whatever. It has religious symbols, it has a God, it has a book — but it’s not a religion. It can be compared with totalitarian ideologies like Communism or fascism. There is no country where Islam is dominant where you have a real democracy, a real separation between church and state.

Fascism is essentially a typically Italian movement. Such it remains whether we consider it as a political party or as a phase of our national revolution--and even more so in the latter case; for Fascism, though in the guise of a political party, is a capital factor in the formation of the modern Italian state.

Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Ten or twenty years ago, the form of nationalism most closely corresponding to Communism today was political Catholicism.

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

I'm so proud of being a populist!

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.