--- title: "19 Certain Quotes By Judith Butler" description: "19 Certain quotes by Judith Butler. Plus more from Judith Butler and more Certain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/judith-butler-1374_certain_i-think-it-s-important-to-live-with-a-ce_2494941.jpg" --- > [I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-it-s-important-to-live-with-a-certain-danger-and-a-certain/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/judith-butler-1374_certain_i-think-it-s-important-to-live-with-a-ce_2494941.jpg) > [So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/so-there-might-be-a-kind-of-collective-effort-that-allows-for-those/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/judith-butler-1374_certain_so-there-might-be-a-kind-of-collective-e_1909321.jpg) > [A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/a-certain-kind-of-permission-is-given-to-live-differently-to/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/judith-butler-1374_certain_a-certain-kind-of-permission-is-given-to_3051107.jpg) > [We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-need-to-be-i-think-equally-sensitive-to-the-injurious-power-of/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/judith-butler-1374_certain_we-need-to-be-i-think-equally-sensitive_225394.jpg) > [I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-grew-very-skeptical-of-certain-kind-of-jewish-separatism-in-my/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d62/judith-butler-1374_always_i-grew-very-skeptical-of-certain-kind-of_2245047.jpg) > [Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/let-me-say-one-thing-to-clarify-my-position-i-think-we-can-take/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/judith-butler-1374_certain_let-me-say-one-thing-to-clarify-my-posit_1866706.jpg) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-re-not-in-control-of-circumstances-but-that-does-not-mean-we-don-t/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/judith-butler-1374_agency_we-re-not-in-control-of-circumstances-bu_1564932.jpg) > [If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/if-we-think-about-sexual-life-for-a-gender-life-it-seems-to-me-that/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/judith-butler-1374_certain_if-we-think-about-sexual-life-for-a-gend_2775118.jpg) > [Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/understanding-hamas-hezbollah-as-social-movements-that-are/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/judith-butler-1374_being_understanding-hamas-hezbollah-as-social_3100151.jpg) > [Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/peace-is-a-certain-resistance-to-the-terrible-satisfactions-of-war-it/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/197/judith-butler-1374_certain_peace-is-a-certain-resistance-to-the-ter_265856.jpg) > [Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/parody-by-itself-is-not-subversive-and-there-must-be-a-way-to/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e38/judith-butler-1374_certain_parody-by-itself-is-not-subversive-and-t_1142525.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-we-won-t-be-able-to-understand-the-operations-of-trans-phobia/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f26/judith-butler-1374_able_i-think-we-won-t-be-able-to-understand-t_576612.jpg) > [I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-do-not-deny-certain-kinds-of-biological-differences-but-i-always/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97c/judith-butler-1374_asks_i-do-not-deny-certain-kinds-of-biologica_870125.jpg) > [In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/in-the-us-the-problem-has-been-for-instance-that-nazis-have-rights-of/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/judith-butler-1374_analogies_in-the-us-the-problem-has-been-for-insta_2770692.jpg) > [It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-s-not-my-concern-it-s-your-concern-i-just-keep-working-i-keep/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e7/judith-butler-1374_butlers_it-s-not-my-concern-it-s-your-concern-i_1841655.jpg) > [There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-are-ordinary-spaces-where-people-do-more-or-less-share/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/judith-butler-1374_accepted_there-are-ordinary-spaces-where-people-d_391664.jpg) > [It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-is-true-that-one-was-not-allowed-at-the-time-to-really-ask-what/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cd/judith-butler-1374_action_it-is-true-that-one-was-not-allowed-at-t_935307.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-s-not-like-it-s-a-brand-new-vocabulary-that-permits-to-have-a-new/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/judith-butler-1374_body_it-s-not-like-it-s-a-brand-new-vocabular_1220000.jpg) > [I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-do-not-mean-to-say-that-such-institutions-act-unilaterally-on/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/judith-butler-1374_accelerate_i-do-not-mean-to-say-that-such-instituti_972483.jpg) ## Other authors on Certain ## More by Judith Butler > [I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-don-t-think-we-have-to-have-a-personal-relation-to-a-life-lost-to/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-need-a-legal-and-political-understanding-of-the-right-of-the/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/when-we-say-gender-is-performed-we-usually-mean-that-we-ve-taken-on-a/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/cameras-help-to-minimize-collateral-damage-and-very-often-without-a/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-would-say-that-i-m-a-feminist-theorist-before-i-m-a-queer-theorist/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/very-often-if-you-just-get-the-question-well-are-you-a-zionist-if-you/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/sexual-harassment-law-is-very-important-but-i-think-it-would-be-a/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/genocide-is-not-a-legitimate-option-it-s-not-ok-to-decide-that-an/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/let-s-face-it-we-re-undone-by-each-other-and-if-we-re-not-we-re/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-pleasurable-part-of-public-mourning-can-also-lead-to-a-sense-of/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-is-no-life-without-the-conditions-of-life-that-variably-sustain/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/that-the-power-regimes-of-heterosexism-and-phallogocentrism-seek-to/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-that-public-grieving-is-a-good-thing-people-need-to-be/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/maybe-we-need-to-start-with-the-rethinking-of-what-is-west-and-what/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) > [It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-will-not-do-to-say-that-international-law-is-the-enemy-of-the/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/judith-butler/#itemlist", "name": "19 Certain Quotes By Judith Butler", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Judith Butler" }, "url": 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