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 is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the… — 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
“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
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
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“What makes for a livable world is no idle question. It is not merely a question for philosophers. It is posed in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — 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
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
“Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered. — 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
“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
“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
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
“According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about… — 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
In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact… — 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
If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject… — 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
“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
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
