Crime Quote by Judith Butler

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

— Judith Butler

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

— Judith Butler

“Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in…

— Judith Butler

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

— Judith Butler

“Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather, there is something living that is other than life. Instead, "there is a life that will…

— Judith Butler

“Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in…

— Judith Butler

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on…

— Clare Short

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long…

— Henry Giroux

State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and cancels…

— Henry Giroux

Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or…

— Alicia Garza

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies…

— Henry Giroux

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a…

— Kenneth Kaunda

For many people, tear gas is their first interaction with state violence. It's the first time they've been treated like an insect, usually by…

— Zeynep Tufekci