Edward Said Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• If you live in the [Middle East] area, you see [U.S actions] as part of a continuing drive for dominance, and with it a kind of obduracy, a stubborn opposition to the wishes and desires and aspirations of the people there.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Wish

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Events

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.

  Edward Said

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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