What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some. Judith Butler More Quotes by Judith Butler More Quotes From Judith Butler The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. Judith Butler point stay whatever together When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. Judith Butler right name speak trying I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. Judith Butler lesbian say before gay Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me. Judith Butler value me life way There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims. Judith Butler more new limits simple
