Judith Butler quotes - page 2

Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, renowned for her work on gender performativity. Her influential books have transformed contemporary debates about gender, identity, and power. She is considered one of the most important thinkers in feminist and queer theory. Here are 51 of her quotes:

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. (Judith Butler)
I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk. View quote
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It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. View quote
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We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start. View quote
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All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us. View quote
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We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman. View quote
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As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently. View quote
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All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here. View quote
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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 and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman. View quote
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. View quote
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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. (Judith Butler)
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. View quote
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If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences. View quote
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. View quote
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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 matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity. View quote
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Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. View quote
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I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say. View quote
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing. View quote
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender. View quote
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If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless. View quote
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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 culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program. (Judith Butler)
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. View quote
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So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one. View quote
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I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another. View quote
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People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from. View quote
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Judith Butler

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: February 24, 1956
Quotes count: 51
Wikipedia: Judith Butler

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