Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of… — 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
