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

• Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

  

  Duane Michals
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Women
  • Ways

• I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

  

  Judith Butler
  • War
  • Peace
  • Mistake

• In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Kids
  • War
  • Peace

• 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