Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the… — 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
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
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is.… — 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
It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays… — 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
No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — 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
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
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
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely… — 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
The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from… — 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
