Daily Quote by Crispin Blunt

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

— Shimon Peres

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

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

— Albert Camus

“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