The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through… — 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
I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are… — 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… — 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
There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Because Al-Qaeda has been a non-state centered organisation, many of these scenarios do not exactly apply. These are not wars between states.… — 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
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
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring… — 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'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to… — Judith Butler Copy Share
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there are any… — Judith Butler Copy Share
It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as… — Judith Butler Copy Share
![“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/i/5cf/judith-butler-1374_assault_if-you-speak-about-violence-against-isra_1654181.jpg)
