When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and… — 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… — 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… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to start with the rethinking of what is "west" and what is "non-west." It seems to me that there… — 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 want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender. — 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
We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman. — 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
It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from… — 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
I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively… — 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
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs… — 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
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat… — 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
I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right?… — 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
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
