I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links… — 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… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and… — 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
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
Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is… — 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 was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
