Judith Butler Quotes

If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.

Judith Butler

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• I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Dance

• Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Forever

• It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

  

  Kevin James
  • People
  • Cool
  • Capacity

• People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Looks

• There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Feels
  • Part
  • Exciting

• I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood
  • Battle
  • Wells

• The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

  

  William Golding
  • Book
  • Should
  • Forget

• It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Enough
  • Main
  • Good Mind

• Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

  

  Tacitus
  • Laws
  • Crimes
  • Suffered

• In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

  

  Cat Cora
  • Family
  • Boys
  • Plan

• Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Succeed

• The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Heritage
  • Penalties
  • Inheritance

• And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Sometimes
  • Looks
  • Persons

• The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Limits
  • Movements
  • Banks

• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Regard
  • Machine
  • Purposes

• By a man's fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892

  

  Barbara Pease
  • Expression
  • Movements
  • Fingernails

• History, however, is not a linear narrative of progress. Rights may be won and taken away; gains are never complete or uncontested, and popular movements generate their own countervailing pressures.

  

  Eric Foner
  • History
  • Progress
  • Movements

• If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Movements
  • Suffice
  • Mobilization