"Israel is now waging a war against civilians, pure and simple, although you will never hear it put that way in the Un…"

"[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politic…"

"The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that bro…"

"I retain my faith in the humanist tradition, that it’s possible to deal with discrepant experiences truthfully withou…"

"I’ve always been interested in what gets left out. That’s why I’m interested in the figure from the “Ode on a Grecian…"

"Where cruelty and injustice are concerned, hopelessness is submission, which I believe is immoral."

"The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of bein…"

"It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally une…"

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are…"

"When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn."