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> [I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/i-don-t-remember-when-exactly-i-read-my-first-comic-book-but-i-do/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

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## More by Edward Said

> [Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/beginning-is-not-only-a-kind-of-action-it-is-also-a-frame-of-mind-a/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/it-s-very-hard-for-example-to-justify-the-thirty-four-year-occupation/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [ \[9/11\] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/9-11-was-bloody-minded-destruction-for-no-other-reason-than-to-do-it/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/look-at-situations-as-contingent-not-as-inevitable-look-at-them-as/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/i-was-one-of-the-first-people-in-the-palestinian-world-in-the-late/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/take-a-young-man-from-gaza-living-in-the-most-horrendous-conditions/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [ \[One task of intellectuals is\] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/one-task-of-intellectuals-is-to-break-down-the-stereotypes-and/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/i-have-never-known-what-is-arabic-or-english-or-which-one-was-really/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/every-single-empire-in-its-official-discourse-has-said-that-it-is-not/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event-9-11-should-be-to-go/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/since-when-does-a-militarily-occupied-people-have-the-responsibility/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/refuse-to-allow-yourself-to-become-a-vegetable-that-simply-absorbs/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/no-cause-no-god-no-abstract-idea-can-justify-the-mass-slaughter-of/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/what-we-must-eliminate-are-systems-of-representation-that-carry-with/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/part-of-the-main-plan-of-imperialism-is-that-we-will-give-you-your/)

[Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/)

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