Edward Said Quotes About Consciousness

• I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

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  Believe   Thinking  

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• Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

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  Attitude   Mind  

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• We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

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  Fighting  

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After”, p.233, Vintage

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• The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

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  Europe   Orientalism   World  

  "Orientalism". Book by Edward W. Said, 1978.

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