Best Judith Butler Quotes
- Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different… Analysis
- There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great… Asking
- Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. Acts
- Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others… Community
- Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. Each
- 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, it… Always Stay
- Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign… Bound
- To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. Domination
- ... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts… Choice
- If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the… Clear
- Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… Administrative
- When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I… Asked
- Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less… Disposition
- Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread. Bread
- What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all… All
- We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. Expansive
- To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We… Act
- Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a… Even Go
- There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the… Claims
- The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the… Able
- It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a… Development
- When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the… Becomes
- My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and… Beginning
- As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part… Arbitrary
- Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does… Both