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Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity.…

— Henry David Thoreau

'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 world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang

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

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is…

— Edward Said

“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the Oriental; fragments,…

— Edward W. Said

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

— Henry David Thoreau

As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this…

— Ken Liu

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was…

— Craig Thompson

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . __ Orientalism”

— Edward W. Said