Judith Butler Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

• We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

  Judith Butler

  Class, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Moving, Order

  Source: transadvocate.com

• It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

  Judith Butler

  Understanding, Moral, Source

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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