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

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

- Edward Said

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

- Edward Said

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also b…

- 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…

- 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…

- Edward Said

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

- Edward Said

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

- Edward Said