Might Quotes by Judith Butler

11 Might quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler examines might by questioning how power intertwines with gender and identity. Across eleven brief passages, she challenges conventional notions and invites readers to rethink strength through a critical, philosophical lens.

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A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of…

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Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,…

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One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical…

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I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly…

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

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I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but…

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Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they…

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I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show…

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Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who…

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When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I…

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I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging…

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I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

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Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way…

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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…

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“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,…

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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…

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“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…

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“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized…

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