--- title: "24 Form Quotes By Judith Butler" description: "24 Form quotes by Judith Butler. Plus more from Judith Butler and more Form sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/judith-butler-1374_active_all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-po_282958.jpg" --- > [All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-position-of-figuring-out-how-to/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/judith-butler-1374_active_all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-po_282958.jpg) > [Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/photographs-can-be-forms-of-recruitment-ways-of-bringing-the-viewer/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c5/judith-butler-1374_form_photographs-can-be-forms-of-recruitment_2023754.jpg) > [Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/perhaps-we-have-to-remember-that-there-are-forms-of-outrage-that-do/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/421/judith-butler-1374_facts_perhaps-we-have-to-remember-that-there-a_2659493.jpg) > [I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-we-need-a-politics-that-allows-us-to-risk-what-is/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/judith-butler-1374_form_i-think-we-need-a-politics-that-allows-u_234133.jpg) > [We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-form-ourselves-within-the-vocabularies-that-we-did-not-choose-and/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dab/judith-butler-1374_form_we-form-ourselves-within-the-vocabularie_455933.jpg) > [The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-state-or-global-forms-of-power-that-seek-to-protect-populations/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/judith-butler-1374_danger_the-state-or-global-forms-of-power-that_3207412.jpg) > [It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-is-true-that-non-governmental-organisations-working-within-strong/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6a/judith-butler-1374_bias_it-is-true-that-non-governmental-organis_1969426.jpg) > [What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/what-we-need-is-a-political-and-joyous-alternative-to-the-behaviorist/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99c/judith-butler-1374_alternatives_what-we-need-is-a-political-and-joyous-a_1821992.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 reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-reject-totally-the-characterization-of-a-transwoman-as-a-mutilated/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/judith-butler-1374_accusation_i-reject-totally-the-characterization-of_2514345.jpg) > [A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/a-different-kind-of-pleasure-surfaced-in-the-aftermath-the-pleasure/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/judith-butler-1374_aftermath_a-different-kind-of-pleasure-surfaced-in_1327514.jpg) > [ There are surely many ways that \[media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking\] happens, but we can note… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-are-surely-many-ways-that-media-select-and-contextualise-events/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b1/judith-butler-1374_assuming_there-are-surely-many-ways-that-media-se_628002.jpg) > [I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-maybe-the-destructive-pleasure-got-turned-into-the/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aed/judith-butler-1374_art-of-war_i-think-maybe-the-destructive-pleasure-g_682859.jpg) > [There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-are-doubtless-all-kinds-of-ways-of-explaining-why-people-want/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/judith-butler-1374_all-kinds_there-are-doubtless-all-kinds-of-ways-of_1304170.jpg) > [When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/when-i-was-young-there-were-lesbians-who-said-oh-i-will-free-myself/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/judith-butler-1374_complex-relationship_when-i-was-young-there-were-lesbians-who_913895.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) > [The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-question-is-whether-ngos-that-bring-protection-or-aid-or/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/judith-butler-1374_aids_the-question-is-whether-ngos-that-bring_1568406.jpg) > [Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/gender-assignment-is-a-construction-and-yet-many-genderqueer-and/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21a/judith-butler-1374_assignments_gender-assignment-is-a-construction-and_3131367.jpg) > [Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/neoliberalism-has-taken-new-forms-since-the-demise-of-the-fordist/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/judith-butler-1374_concepts_neoliberalism-has-taken-new-forms-since_1655782.jpg) > [We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-set-the-actors-on-the-scene-through-the-banal-discourse-of/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/judith-butler-1374_actors_we-set-the-actors-on-the-scene-through-t_1165750.jpg) > [Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/surely-binationalism-is-not-love-but-there-is-we-might-say-a/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/feb/judith-butler-1374_ambivalence_surely-binationalism-is-not-love-but-the_2909569.jpg) > [What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/what-we-need-are-poems-that-interrogate-the-world-of-pronouns-open-up/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/judith-butler-1374_affirmation_what-we-need-are-poems-that-interrogate_1159485.jpg) > [If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/if-we-are-trying-to-account-for-mobilization-we-have-to-ask-under/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be8/judith-butler-1374_accounts_if-we-are-trying-to-account-for-mobiliza_1175874.jpg) > [Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/look-gender-trouble-includes-a-critique-of-the-idea-that-there-are/) [Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7b/judith-butler-1374_criticize_look-gender-trouble-includes-a-critique_469348.jpg) ## Other authors on Form ## 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/form/judith-butler/#itemlist", "name": "24 Form Quotes By Judith Butler", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Judith Butler" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-position-of-figuring-out-how-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/judith-butler-1374_active_all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-po_282958.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/judith-butler-1374_active_all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-po_282958.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/judith-butler-1374_active_all-of-us-as-bodies-are-in-the-active-po_282958.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the…” — Judith Butler", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. 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