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Edward Said has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know,…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost…
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,…
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The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it,…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
— Lewis Mumford
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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
— Oscar Wilde
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There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and…
— Ani DiFranco
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Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the…
— Clive Barker
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market…
— Abigail Van Buren
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
— Jack Nicholson
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I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it.…
— Christopher Lee
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I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and…
— George Grosz
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated…
— Wally Lamb
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