Quotes by : Edward Said

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,....

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

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

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....

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....