Taken Quotes by Judith Butler

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

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

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

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

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

— Judith Butler

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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