Occupation Quotes - Page 4

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

Occupation is the scythe of time.