Judith Butler Quotes on Politics
Judith Butler is an American philosopher whose Gender Trouble made the performative theory of gender central to contemporary feminism, queer theory, and political thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Judith Butler on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Judith Butler:
“To be a body is to be exposed to social crafting and form.”
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“We must fight those who are committed to destruction , without replicating their destructiveness. Understanding how to fight in this way is the task and the bind of a nonviolent ethics and politics.”
Chapter One | p. 64 -
“There is no practice of nonviolence that does not negotiate fundamental ethical and political ambiguities, which means that “nonviolence” is not an absolute principle, but the name of an ongoing struggle.”
Introduction | p. 23 -
“To affirm equality is to affirm a cohabitation defined in part by an interdependency that takes the edge off the individual boundaries of the body, or that works that edge for its social and political potential.”
Chapter Three | p. 148 -
“If nonviolence is to make sense as an ethical and political position, it cannot simply repress aggression or do away with its reality; rather, nonviolence emerges as a meaningful concept precisely when destruction is most likely or seems most certain.”
Chapter One | p. 39