--- title: "14 United Quotes By Edward Said" description: "14 United quotes by Edward Said. Plus more from Edward Said and more United sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/edward-said-6412_afghanistan_ironically-many-of-these-people-includin_1942995.jpg" --- > [Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/ironically-many-of-these-people-including-osama-bin-laden-and-the/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/edward-said-6412_afghanistan_ironically-many-of-these-people-includin_1942995.jpg) > [The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-existent-until-it-erupts-in/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/edward-said-6412_confrontation_the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-exi_2658215.jpg) > [What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. Take the word "terrorism." It has become synonymous now with anti-Americanism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/what-is-quite-worrisome-is-the-absence-of-analysis-and-reflection/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/edward-said-6412_absence_what-is-quite-worrisome-is-the-absence-o_2536533.jpg) > [The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-united-states-that-has-been-involved-first-in-the-gulf-war-and/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/edward-said-6412_civilians_the-united-states-that-has-been-involved_1841058.jpg) > [It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/it-is-very-easy-to-make-wild-generalizations-about-islam-all-you-have/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/edward-said-6412_culture_it-is-very-easy-to-make-wild-generalizat_741557.jpg) > [Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/most-arabs-and-muslims-feel-that-the-united-states-hasn-t-really-been/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/edward-said-6412_assembly_most-arabs-and-muslims-feel-that-the-uni_1109111.jpg) > [Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b62/edward-said-6412_frightening_part-of-the-main-plan-of-imperialism-is_251048.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/it-s-very-hard-for-example-to-justify-the-thirty-four-year-occupation-2/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07b/edward-said-6412_action_it-s-very-hard-for-example-to-justify-th_805333.jpg) > [The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-other-view-is-of-the-official-united-states-the-united-states-of/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/edward-said-6412_army_the-other-view-is-of-the-official-united_2258087.jpg) > [ The just response to this terrible event \[9/11\] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/edward-said-6412_community_the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event_189801.jpg) > [The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-arab-rulers-are-basically-unpopular-they-are-supported-by-the/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/edward-said-6412_america_the-arab-rulers-are-basically-unpopular_550879.jpg) > [In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/in-the-islamic-world-the-u-s-is-seen-in-two-quite-different-ways-one/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/edward-said-6412_army_in-the-islamic-world-the-u-s-is-seen-in_1030678.jpg) > [In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/in-the-islamic-world-the-u-s-is-seen-in-two-quite-different-ways-one-2/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/edward-said-6412_army_in-the-islamic-world-the-u-s-is-seen-in_2001823.jpg) > [These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/these-actions-were-taken-with-the-support-and-financing-of-the-united/) [Edward Said](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-said/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51d/edward-said-6412_action_these-actions-were-taken-with-the-suppor_567348.jpg) ## Other authors on United ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/united/edward-said/#itemlist", "name": "14 United Quotes By Edward Said", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Said" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/ironically-many-of-these-people-including-osama-bin-laden-and-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/edward-said-6412_afghanistan_ironically-many-of-these-people-includin_1942995.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/edward-said-6412_afghanistan_ironically-many-of-these-people-includin_1942995.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/edward-said-6412_afghanistan_ironically-many-of-these-people-includin_1942995.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by…” — Edward Said", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Said" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-existent-until-it-erupts-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/edward-said-6412_confrontation_the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-exi_2658215.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/edward-said-6412_confrontation_the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-exi_2658215.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/642/edward-said-6412_confrontation_the-history-of-other-cultures-is-non-exi_2658215.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.” — Edward Said", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is quite worrisome is the absence of analysis and reflection. 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The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Said" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-said/the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event-9-11-should-be-to-go/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/edward-said-6412_community_the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event_189801.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/edward-said-6412_community_the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event_189801.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/edward-said-6412_community_the-just-response-to-this-terrible-event_189801.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the…” — Edward Said", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. 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