Action Quote by Edward Said

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am…

— Victoria Woodhull

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

— Edward Said

Well, within my business, visual art, the intake is 75 per cent female and yet you look at who has showed their work and…

— Grayson Perry

“His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“That was the way of things. He had heard of philosophers who claimed that it was possible to belong to neither group, that all…

— R. Cameron Cooke

Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of…

— Alfred William Howitt

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

— Marilyn French

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling…

— Charlie Munger

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all…

— Gilberto Gil

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The…

— Frans de Waal

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

— Nicholas Rodger