Quotes by : Edward Said

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....