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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.
— Judith Butler
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
— Judith Butler
The short, fat fingers moved like dancing sausages across the strings;
— Jonathan Stroud
I was off to Yale to be a lesbian
— Judith Butler
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
— Judith Butler
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
— Judith Butler
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.
— Judith Butler
It seems that every text has more sources than it can reconstruct within its own terms.
— Judith Butler
Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it.
— Octavia E. Butler
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
— Judith Butler
I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.
— Dilma Rousseff
To operate within the matrix ofpower is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. — Judith Butler
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
— Judith Butler
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
— Judith Butler
There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.
— Judith Butler
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
— Judith Butler
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
— Judith Butler
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
— Judith Butler
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
— Judith Butler
If you show off do not get upset when God doesn't show up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.
— Judith Butler
Peace is a resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war .
— Judith Butler
People who play are happier people. And people who don't have access to play tend to be depressed.
— Brian Sutton-Smith
The critical image ... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
— Judith Butler
No, I'm not gay. And I think it would be a waste with all those pretty girls in the front row.
— Bill Kaulitz
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act ... a doing rather than a being.
— Judith Butler
War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing.
— Samantha Shannon
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
— Plautus
