"History is written by those who win and…" — Edward Said
"History is written by those who win and those who dominate."
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39 Quotes by Edward Said
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural…
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power…
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I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I…
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Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist,…
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power,…
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist,…
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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…
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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…
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to…
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Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an…
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not…
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