136 Occupation Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Mahatma Gandhi

Life Buy Struggle Wife Ambition Sole Ours Collect Hunting Degradation Degrade Raw Indolence Occupation Sought Cattle Pass Continue His Inflicted Against Then Us Certain Who European Whose Level Desire Number

Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory. Mahmoud Abbas

Citizen Action Military Cities Civil Determines Part Occupation Territory Israel West West Bank Any Bank Whether Unilateral Reside Palestinian Right

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Mahmoud Darwish

Good Siege Poetry Inspiration Occupation

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. Manuel Puig

Great Telling About French Sort Occupation Always Were German Wondered Authors Roman Interested Nouveau Novel Why Thing

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before. Margo Lanagan

Age World Luxury Before Innocence Assumption Pleasant Side Respected Main Thrust Occupation Always Real Uglier Childhood Where Children The Real World Real World Then Shown Play

I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France. Marine Le Pen

Consider France London Occupation Were Regime Republic

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion. Marshall Brickman

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. Martin Cruz Smith

Man Culture World Dangerous Draws Kind Mining Develops Most Concept Unto Occupation Itself Which Then Certain Coal Whole

I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in building support for the peace process. Martin McGuinness

Peace People Dangerous Building Think Support Involved Particularly Make Occupation Very Contribution Process Dismiss Peace Process

Being infamous is not fun. It becomes a weird occupation in and of itself. Michael Cimino

Weird Occupation Becomes Infamous Itself Being Fun

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation. Michael Cimino

Nature Writing Solitary Fairly Occupation

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. Michael K. Powell

Technology Social Media Digital Job Every Email Web Online More More And More Participation Occupation Access Literacy Available Social Requires Navigation Media Now Nearly Basic Level

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition. Michael Korda

Experience Those Punishments Criticize Invaded Had Occupation Opposition Ferocious German Germans Being Themselves Us Who Even Expressed Position

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes? Milos Forman

Anti-U.S. sentiment has been born out of many grievances - support and weapons for such dictators as Mubarak, unquestionable support for Israel in its occupation of Palestine, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen that kill more civilians than intended targets. Mona Eltahawy

Sentiment Out Has-Been Weapons Born Civilians More Attacks Support Occupation Israel Been Iraq Yemen Targets Dictators Than Intended Afghanistan Mubarak Wars Many Pakistan Palestine

We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country. But that only replaced an external occupation with an internal one, in which favored sons of the armed forces replaced their uniforms with suits, a move meant to create a semblance of civilian rule. Mona Eltahawy

Army Suits Country Military Group Rule Favored Civilian Only Sons Since Armed Armed Forces Forces Occupation Been Replaced Semblance Officers Ended Move Egypt Which Uniforms Create Meant Internal Monarchy External Britain

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, like his most recent predecessors Mohamed Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, rarely mention the Sinai Peninsula other than to celebrate its liberation from Israeli occupation in 1982. Mona Eltahawy

Celebrate Other President Liberation Peninsula Rarely Mention Like Most Occupation Israeli His Than Predecessors Mubarak Recent

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. Muqtada al Sadr

Will Liberation Martyrdom Until Occupation Stop Resisting

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God. Muqtada al Sadr

God Good Grace Evil Our Only Good Thing Saddam Occupation Because Salvation Just Just Because Mean Rid Thing

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. Muqtada al Sadr

War Terrorism Rights People Speak Savior Prohibited Torture Weapons Kinds Invading Lead No-One Come Armies Make Occupation Different Them Then Ignite Displacement Conquer Lethal Suffer Bombing Right Defender

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

God Will Out Willing Driven Forces Occupation Happened Vietnam

Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation. Olav Thon

War Wise Strong Decision Free Country Nationalism Say Must Scandinavian Would Easy Percent Had Occupation Sure Occupied Go Were Been Very Germans Norway Then Sweden

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame. Orison Swett Marden

Life Character Man Genius Wealth Word Find Something More Higher Throughout Sacredness Occupation Attributes Greater Matched His Fame Than Achievements Enduring Grander Acquisition Then

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