Edward W. Said Quotes

The Secular World Is The World Of History As Made By Human Beings. Human Agency Is Subject To Investigation And Analysis, Which It Is The Mission Of Understanding To Apprehend, Criticize, Influence, And Judge. Above All, Critical Thought Does Not Submit To State Power Or To Commands To Join In The Ranks Marching Against One Or Another Approved Enemy. Rather Than The Manufactured Clash Of Civilizations, We Need To Concentrate On The Slow Working Together Of Cultures That Overlap, Borrow From Each Other, And Live Together In Far More Interesting Ways Than Any Abridged Or Inauthentic Mode Of Understanding Can Allow. But For That Kind Of Wider Perception We Need Time And Patient And Skeptical Inquiry, Supported By Faith In Communities Of Interpretation That Are Difficult To Sustain In A World Demanding Instant Action And Reaction.

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