Judith Butler Quotes
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Quotes to Explore
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
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I got rid of all those reporters.
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
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There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.
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Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
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I started teaching yoga in 1974 in Colorado, I was living in Winter Park, and I started teaching skiers. At that point I was teaching more of the Sivananda system and just pushing it up a little bit to make it a little more rajasic a little more active, a little more physical. People would come, and feel great, and by the time I left Colorado in 1980 I'd taught pretty much everyone in town - the ski patrol, ski instructors, the bar owners.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the shaming that comes from acknowledging that one may have some issues that may relate to mental health, often people are not willing to go and seek additional help because of that shaming or that cultural stigma that's associated with it. And I think that we need to make this change in how people approach mental health.
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You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
