Judith Butler Quotes
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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I've not actually been on too many dates.
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
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Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.
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Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of slave morality.
