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 wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act… — 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 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
![“If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent (if there is a moral equivalent). It certainly terrifies, but perhaps also it is a linguistic permutation of state terrorism, an assault that stops one in one's tracks, and…” quote by Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5cf/judith-butler-1374_assault_if-you-speak-about-violence-against-isra_1654181.jpg)
