Quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler

… that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a ‘one’ who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

Choices

Clothes

Morning

“Gender trouble” is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it’s sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it’s like a former love affair you had and you’re done.

Mean

New York

Sweet

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

Given

Kind

Permission

A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

Fall

Gay

Mourning

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.

Mean

Virtue

World

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.

Body

Construction

Helping

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

Mean

Rights

Understanding

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states. And yet, it seems to me that we make a mistake if we accept the view that states are fighting terrorism, since we have abundant evidence for accepting the idea of state terrorism, and what is most urgent is to track and expose how state terrorism operates under the rubric of “democracy.”

Fighting

Mistake

War

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 of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

Names

Recognition

Social

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Acting

Actors

Administration

Agency

Agree Upon

Allegiance

Allies

Argument

Asking

Attachment

Attitude

Be Good

Bears

Believe

Body

Book

Brave

Bread

Break

Capture

Cease

Change

Character

Choices

Christian

Circles

Cities

Citizens

Class

Clothes

Collective Effort

Comic

Commitment

Community

Confused

Connections

Construction

Cooperation

Country

Criticism

Culture

Demand

Democracy

Desire

Destruction

Determination

Differences

Different

Distance

Doe

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Quotes by Judith Butler

Judith Butler

“Gender trouble” is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it’s sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it’s like a former love affair you had and you’re done.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

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.

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.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

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