I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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 think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to… — 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
I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity… — 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
I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — 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
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
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
I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think that many of the mobilizations against the wars waged by the US and its allies since 2001 have been non-violent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times… — 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
