Want Quotes by Judith Butler

13 Want quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler’s reflections on Want bring a philosophical edge to everyday cravings. Across 13 concise statements, she probes the social and existential layers of desire, offering a rich, if brief, intellectual snack.

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I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.

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I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

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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…

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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…

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I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel,…

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Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and…

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I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular…

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I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to…

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Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is…

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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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There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with…

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We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a…

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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the…

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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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