Certain Quotes by Judith Butler

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but…

— Judith Butler

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

— Judith Butler

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

— Judith Butler

Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are…

— Judith Butler

Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively…

— Judith Butler

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds…

— Judith Butler

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability…

— Judith Butler

Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely…

— Judith Butler

We're not in control [of circumstances], but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what…

— Judith Butler

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always…

— Judith Butler

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the…

— Judith Butler

It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times…

— Judith Butler

There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or…

— Judith Butler

I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions,…

— Judith Butler

In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist…

— Judith Butler

It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from…

— Judith Butler

It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets…

— Judith Butler

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links…

— Judith Butler

I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,…

— Judith Butler