Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — 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
