"The intellectual must be a dissident, a critic, a voice of opposition."

"The idea of progress is often used to justify imperialism, to rationalize the domination of one culture over another."

"The intellectual's main role is to question, to challenge, to provoke."

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

"The West’s view of the Middle East is a form of cultural imperialism."