Judith Butler Quotes

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

Judith Butler

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• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Surprised
  • Award
  • Cardinal

• I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Popular
  • Shoes
  • Surprised

• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Nothing
  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Me
  • Grandmother
  • Birth

• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Movement
  • Revolutionary
  • Communist

• People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • People
  • Choices
  • New

• Ru Paul knew details of the 'Burnett Show' that even surprised me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Show
  • Details

• We also honour the great Che Guevara, whose revolutionary exploits, including on our own continent, were too powerful for any prison censors to hide from us. The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom. We will always honour his memory.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Powerful

• Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Artist

• To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Revolutionary
  • Zen Buddhist

• It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Feeling
  • Winning
  • Gold

• Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Reality

• I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Work
  • Art
  • House

• I think he's done a phenomenal job and hasn't got the recognition he's deserved for a guy that's proven he can win in a tough situation. I'm kind of surprised his name hasn't popped up before now.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Up
  • Done
  • Job

• Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Violence
  • Revolutionary
  • Dictatorship

• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Revolution
  • Impossible
  • Revolutionary

• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Identity

• The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

  

  Damon Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Today

• Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Business
  • Freedom
  • Servants

• Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Growth
  • Next
  • Plans

• I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Revolutionary
  • Surprised
  • Gender Trouble