What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism, which, in turn, has become synonymous with being critical of the United States, which, in turn, has become… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. — Edward Said Copy Share
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements… — Edward Said Copy Share
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and… — Edward Said Copy Share
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either… — Edward Said Copy Share
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around… — Edward Said Copy Share
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is… — Edward Said Copy Share
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it… — Edward Said Copy Share
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international… — Edward Said Copy Share
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? — Edward Said Copy Share
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package… — Edward Said Copy Share
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share
What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make… — Edward Said Copy Share
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order… — Edward Said Copy Share
