When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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
What would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that… — 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 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
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 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
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
I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right?… — 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
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
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
Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always… — 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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