Edward Said Quotes

I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of m...

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything bu...

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmi...

To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of lit...

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Begi...

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce a...

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of suc...

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out ...

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift f...