Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of…

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with…

— Guy Standing

I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has…

— Yance Ford

“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

“...studies show that in general, optimists die ten years earlier than pessimists." "I find that hard to believe" "Of course you do, you're an…

— Susin Nielsen

“Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than…

— 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

Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the…

— Catherine Doherty

“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

“We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on time.”

— Gregory Boyle

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

— Alissa Quart

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

— Walter Benjamin

There is fear of impoverishment as a narrowly based ideological government, infused with medieval religious rectitude, lays waste to the Egyptian economy, which, given…

— Crispin Blunt

“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

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus…

— Philip Kapleau