The Age of Insecurity Quotes

“Experiencing insecurity is a normal and understandable reaction to difficult circumstances. This means that changing people’s circumstances—instead of just trying to change their minds or how they feel—could go a long way toward easing people’s suffering. Providing people with stable and meaningful work, adequate shelter, healthy food, and old-age supports would relieve incalculable stress.”
― Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

“When we are shamed into denying the gift of care that we all need, we turn inward and put up defenses, which only makes the world seem more inhospitable and hostile and ourselves more adrift and lost.”
― Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

“To be vulnerable and dependent on others is not a burden to escape but the essence of human existence.”
― Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart