الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه.

“I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient no…”

“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we hav…”

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a …”

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embo…”