1. “People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.”
2. “Masculine and Feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
3. “Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.”
4. “War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.”
5. “You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.”
6. We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.”
7. “Possibility is not a luxury; it is crucial as bread.”
8. “Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as a intervening.”
9. “There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.”
10. “We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
11. “Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”
12. “To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”
13. “It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.”
14. “We act and walk and spaek and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.”
15. “All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all To be here means you have a right to be here.”
16. “Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.”
17. “The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.”
18. “The life doesn’t simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.”
19. “If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.”
20. “We have to ask how e can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what’s intelligible an readable and what is not.”
21. “I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say.”
22. “We need to think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.”
23. “Gender is an identity tenuously constitutes in time, institute in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.”
24. “I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.”
25. “We cannot choose with whom we cohabit the world.”
26. “The critical image… must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.”
27. “We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that enrich inequality.”
28. “I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.”
29. “The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through acts of protection.”
30. “Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”
