It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat… — 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
I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at… — 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
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
![“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on…” quote by Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f0/judith-butler-1374_administration_i-am-not-sure-that-i-know-enough-about-t_1393515.jpg)
