Edward Said Quotes About Imperialism

Quotes about: Imperialism

• 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 truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.

  Edward Said

  Writing, Past, Order

• Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.

  Edward Said

  Struggle, Ideas, Interesting

  Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.90, Lexington Books

• We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

  Edward Said

  Empires, Study, Imperialism

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