Trying Quotes by Judith Butler

11 Trying quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler’s take on trying blends theory with everyday resolve. In just eleven lines you’ll sense her nuanced view on how we confront challenges and shape identity through persistent action.

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When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the…

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It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is.…

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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are…

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If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to…

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We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

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Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying…

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I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights…

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The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or…

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I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to…

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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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Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet…

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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,…

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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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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…

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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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