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> [The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-violence-of-language-consists-in-its-effort-to-capture-the/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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> [The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-critical-image-must-not-only-fail-to-capture-its-referent-but/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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> [You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/you-re-an-evolving-and-transforming-person-right-and-how-do-we/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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## Other authors on Capture

## More by Judith Butler

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-don-t-think-we-have-to-have-a-personal-relation-to-a-life-lost-to/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/we-need-a-legal-and-political-understanding-of-the-right-of-the/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/when-we-say-gender-is-performed-we-usually-mean-that-we-ve-taken-on-a/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/cameras-help-to-minimize-collateral-damage-and-very-often-without-a/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-would-say-that-i-m-a-feminist-theorist-before-i-m-a-queer-theorist/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/very-often-if-you-just-get-the-question-well-are-you-a-zionist-if-you/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/sexual-harassment-law-is-very-important-but-i-think-it-would-be-a/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/genocide-is-not-a-legitimate-option-it-s-not-ok-to-decide-that-an/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/let-s-face-it-we-re-undone-by-each-other-and-if-we-re-not-we-re/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/the-pleasurable-part-of-public-mourning-can-also-lead-to-a-sense-of/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/there-is-no-life-without-the-conditions-of-life-that-variably-sustain/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/that-the-power-regimes-of-heterosexism-and-phallogocentrism-seek-to/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-think-that-public-grieving-is-a-good-thing-people-need-to-be/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/maybe-we-need-to-start-with-the-rethinking-of-what-is-west-and-what/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

> [It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/it-will-not-do-to-say-that-international-law-is-the-enemy-of-the/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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