Huntington and Said Quotes

Huntington

“Violence between states and groups from different civilizations, however, carries with it the potential for escalation, as other states and groups from these civilizations rally to the support of broader conflict”

“The West is, and will remain for years to come the most powerful civilization. Yet it’s power is relative to that of other civilizations declining”

“The predominant patterns of economic and political development, differ from civilization to civilization. The key issues on the international agenda involve differences among civilizations.”

SAID

“The orient is an integral part or European material civilization and culture. Orientalism expresses that part culturally and even ideoligically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines even colonial bureaucracies and colonial styles.”

“The interchange between the academic and the mroe or less imaginative meanigns of Orientalism is a constant one, and since the late eighteenth century, there has been considerable, quite disciplined quite perhaps even regulated traffic between the two.”

“I have begun with the assumption that the Orient is not an inert fact of nature. It is not merely there, just as the Occident itself is not just there either”