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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
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
The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.
— Judith Butler
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
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
— 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
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button.
— Brene Brown
Truth is stranger than fiction...
— Mark Twain
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
The critical image ... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
— Judith Butler
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act ... a doing rather than a being.
— Judith Butler
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
— Judith Butler
