"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind……" — Judith Butler

"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality."

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57 Quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there…
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are…
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular…
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and…
I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I…
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold…
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation…
Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.

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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is… — Karen Armstrong
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.… — Chinua Achebe
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to… — Rowan Atkinson
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me… — John James Audubon
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd

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