War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There is a rather huge ethical difference between electing surgery and being faced with transphobic condemnation and diagnoses. I would say that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of… — Judith Butler Copy Share
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our… — Judith Butler Copy Share
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,… — Judith Butler Copy Share
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler Copy Share
Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction… — Judith Butler Copy Share
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way… — Judith Butler Copy Share
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No… — Judith Butler Copy Share
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,… — Judith Butler Copy Share
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not… — Judith Butler Copy Share
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology… — Judith Butler Copy Share
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized… — Judith Butler Copy Share
I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to… — Judith Butler Copy Share
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any… — Judith Butler Copy Share
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as… — Judith Butler Copy Share
