War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think that many of the mobilizations against the wars waged by the US and its allies since 2001 have been non-violent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather, there is something living that is other than life. Instead, "there is a life… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at… — 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,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — 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
![“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on…” quote by Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f0/judith-butler-1374_administration_i-am-not-sure-that-i-know-enough-about-t_1393515.jpg)
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