Violence Quotes by Judith Butler

We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization.…

— Judith Butler

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased…

— Judith Butler

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.…

— Judith Butler

The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act…

— Judith Butler

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that…

— Judith Butler

I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that…

— Judith Butler

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most…

— Judith Butler

“I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential…

— Judith Butler

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

If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent…

— Judith Butler

“In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To…

— Judith Butler

Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying…

— Judith Butler

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet…

— Judith Butler

There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note…

— Judith Butler

“Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially…

— Judith Butler