"No cause, no God, no abstract idea can……" — Edward Said
"No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents."
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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 Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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