What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent,… — 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 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
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We're not in control [of circumstances], but that does not mean we don't exercise a certain kind of conditioned agency. That's what… — 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
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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… — 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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