It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as… — 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 never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would… — 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
I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more… — 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
