Occupation Quotes - Page 8

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

When love is true there is no truer occupation.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.

We are here to condemn the Palestinian occupation of the territories, but also to condemn the recent racist attack in France, against both Jews and Arabs.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.