Quotes by : Edward Said

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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