Just Quote by Alissa Quart Download Open image “Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.” — Alissa Quart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Just Thing Working class
“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 Copy Share Image
The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a “proletariat”—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a “precariat,” a shifting… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess of effort.… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level,… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the public's lack of criticism of the rich - and how they seek their pleasure - might derive from the… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
