Quotes About Orientalism Edward Said

#1. Orientalism is after all a system for citing works and authors . Orientalism

Edward W. Said

#2. I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

Edward W. Said

#3. If poetry is what you live for then do it write.

R.M. Engelhardt

#4. Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

Edward Said

#5. We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of our time: Why do we not accord the same epistemological mutation in what imperialism has done, and what Orientalism continues to do?

Edward W. Said

#6. I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.

Voltaire

#7. In a sense the limitations of Orientalism are, as I said earlier, the limitations that follow upon disregarding, essentializing, denuding the humanity of another culture, people, or geographical region.

Edward W. Said

#8. Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.

John Dewey

#9. The macabre melodies were a surreal audible example of just who I'd been before and a stark contrast to who I was now.

K.A. Hill

#10. Human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

Edward W. Said

#11. Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#12. To say simply that Orientalism was a rationalization of colonial rule is to ignore the extent to which colonial rule was justified in advance by Orientalism, rather than after the fact.

Edward W. Said