"Humanism is the only - I would go……" — Edward Said
"Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history."
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39 Quotes by Edward Said
Edward Said has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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More Disfigure Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by…
— Pope Francis
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... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's…
— Lisa See
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Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off…
— Anna Sewell
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Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with…
— Chief Seattle
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My parents always taught me never to take anything for granted because it can be taken away from you like…
— Lance Gross
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