Affirmation Quote by Edward Said

Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any…

— Judith Butler

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into…

— Edward Said

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views…

— Edward Said

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of…

— Okky Madasari

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert.…

— Anonymous

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All…

— Burhan Sonmez

“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a…

— Hasan Hanafi

“Western thought has emphasized individual action, permanent character traits, formal logic, and clearly delineated categories. For an even longer period, Asian thought has emphasized…

— David Brooks

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West…

— Rajneesh

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang