"Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of……" — Judith Butler
"Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews."
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Judith Butler
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57 Quotes by Judith Butler
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there…
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are…
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular…
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and…
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I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I…
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold…
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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