Judith Butler Quotes

Life itself is controversy.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

Not all the vital questions have been settled.

No one is served by continued uncertainty and fractious debate.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.

I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

There is no shortage of disputes.

It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.

Some people think I enjoy debate. I don't. I wish everyone agreed with me; it would save a lot of time.

I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.