I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
If you look at the curricula of most universities and schools in this country [USA], considering our long encounter with the Islamic… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — 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 Image
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 Image
[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement? — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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 Image
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