Judith Butler Quotes

I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

Judith Butler

• War
• Pleasure
• Revenge
• Destruction

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• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Children
  • School
  • Want

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Seriously
  • Stardom

• I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Know
  • Me
  • Situation

• The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Truth Is

• I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Stage
  • Performer

• If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • You
  • Principles

• One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Woman
  • Need
  • Healthy

• No agency is better than its account executives.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Better
  • Account
  • Agency

• Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Country
  • Attention

• On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Duck

• Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Living
  • England
  • Easygoing

• So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Satan

• I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Pizza
  • Bread

• Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • War
  • Kill
  • Department

• Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • War
  • Capitalists

• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

  

  Myrtle Reed
  • Beautiful
  • Moments
  • Pleasure

• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  

  Judith Butler
  • War
  • Pleasure
  • Revenge