Civilians Quote by Edward Said

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

— Edward Said

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements…

— Edward Said

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

— Edward Said

Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and…

— Edward Said

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…

— Edward Said

Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around…

— Edward Said

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is…

— Edward Said

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international…

— Edward Said

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

— Edward Said

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package…

— Edward Said