"To operate within the matrix of power is……" — Judith Butler

"To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination."

— Judith Butler

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

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More Domination Quotes

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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly… — Ansel Adams
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. — Theodor Adorno
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. — Theodor Adorno
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all… — John Henrik Clarke
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If… — Vernon Howard
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built… — Unknown Author
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.... — Erich Fromm
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,… — Bell Hooks

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