“For Luther judgment was a real problem, because everyone gets off on judgment, according to Luther. In fact you have to put a restraining order, a gag order, on those, and that's everyone, who want to judge everyone and everything at top speed. So that when you have a rush to judgment, … it's also the rush of judgment. … I'd like us to consider the libidinal investment that Luther sees in judgment and legislates against.”

—  Avital Ronell

"Kafka's Before the Law: The Law of the Father http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifz0m9PBD9E" (2011) 13:10

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