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Judith Butler Quotes

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, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all Picture Quote #1

I think it’s important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk Picture Quote #1

It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation Picture Quote #1

Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets Picture Quote #1

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps Picture Quote #1

I’m a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I’m able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful Picture Quote #1

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I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn’t trust anybody outside. You’d bring someone home, and the first question was, ‘Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?’ Picture Quote #1

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one Picture Quote #1

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death Picture Quote #1

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims Picture Quote #1

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech Picture Quote #1

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims Picture Quote #1

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results Picture Quote #1

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination Picture Quote #1

There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability Picture Quote #1

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results Picture Quote #1

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us Picture Quote #1

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law Picture Quote #1

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The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets Picture Quote #1

I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say Picture Quote #1

Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements Picture Quote #1

The life doesn’t simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered Picture Quote #1

What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive Picture Quote #1

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 acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world Picture Quote #1

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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality Picture Quote #1

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture Picture Quote #1

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves Picture Quote #1

Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be given or allocated by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives Picture Quote #1

It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation Picture Quote #1

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity Picture Quote #1

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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, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all. (Judith Butler Quotes) I think it’s important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk (Judith Butler Quotes) It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. (Judith Butler Quotes) Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. (Judith Butler Quotes) As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps. (Judith Butler Quotes) I’m a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I’m able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful. (Judith Butler Quotes) I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn’t trust anybody outside. You’d bring someone home, and the first question was, ‘Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?’ (Judith Butler Quotes) So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one. (Judith Butler Quotes) Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death. (Judith Butler Quotes) There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims. (Judith Butler Quotes) The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech. (Judith Butler Quotes) It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims (Judith Butler Quotes) There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results (Judith Butler Quotes) To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination (Judith Butler Quotes) There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability (Judith Butler Quotes) There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results (Judith Butler Quotes) It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. (Judith Butler Quotes) It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. (Judith Butler Quotes) The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets. (Judith Butler Quotes) I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say (Judith Butler Quotes) Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements. (Judith Butler Quotes) The life doesn’t simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered. (Judith Butler Quotes) What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive. (Judith Butler Quotes) 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 acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world. (Judith Butler Quotes) I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women’s safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. (Judith Butler Quotes) Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. (Judith Butler Quotes) When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. (Judith Butler Quotes) Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be given or allocated by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives. (Judith Butler Quotes) It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation (Judith Butler Quotes) You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity (Judith Butler Quotes)

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