Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate … - Edward Said
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate …
- Edward Said
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, aut… - Edward Said
Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, aut…
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in… - Edward Said
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. - Edward Said
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also b… - Edward Said
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also b…
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human hi… - Edward Said
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human hi…
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more trul… - Edward Said
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more trul…
History is written by those who win and those who dominate. - Edward Said
History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. - Edward Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
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