Judith Butler Quotes

I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

Judith Butler

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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Culture
  • Politics

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Intellectual

• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Think
  • Fact

• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Tough

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Police
  • Destroy

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Life
  • Silly

• I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Think
  • Angry

• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Face

• I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Reality
  • Respect

• What could be better than working with people you love?

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Love
  • Better

• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.

  

  Carmelo Anthony
  • People
  • Player
  • Selfish

• It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Leadership

• I get star-struck anytime I meet performers that I grew up watching and appreciating. I mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level.

  

  James Roday
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• n the early '90s, all the girl groups were dressing super feminine. And then we came on the scene wearing Cross Colours, Girbaud, and Nautica.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Groups
  • Feminine
  • Super

• I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

  

  Judith Butler
  • People
  • Reality
  • Language