We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new… — 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
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to… — 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
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
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of… — 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
