Occupation Quotes - Page 34

• Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

  Tariq Ali

  Today, Hated, Ifs

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

  Mairead Corrigan

  Ideas, Alternatives, Looks

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Law, Rights

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, People, Saws

  Source: www.bicyclecards.com

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• There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Army, Battle

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• 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.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Iraq, Updates

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Want, Als

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how it feels to be a wife/mother/sister/name your poison in today's world. But this story [The Nightingale ] is told from the perspective of two sisters during the German occupation of France in WWII.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Names, Two

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should be pursued now.They went on from striking to trying to have the workforce and the communities take over the abandoned factories that U.S. Steel was dismantling.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ohio, Community, Trying

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Hands, Ideas, Choices

  Source: kalamu.com

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• In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to Palestinian Arabs. This is a pain in the neck for many Israelis. They say: Leave us alone, what can we do about it? Or they say: Look at Syria, look at Iraq, the West Bank is paradise by comparison. I was one of the first to say, shortly after the Six-Day War, that occupation is corrupting. It corrupts the occupier and, in a different way, it corrupts the occupied.

  Amos Oz

  Pain, War, Media

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Occupation alone is happiness.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  William Cowper

  Men, Thinking, Care

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.17

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Self, Self Preservation, Preservation

  Song: Talk To Me Now, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Want, Latter

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• Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Building Up, Differences

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Phases, Painting

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

  Jacques de Lacretelle

  Men, Divine, Principal

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• 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.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Quests, May, Spirit

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• I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  School, Thinking, Careers

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• Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Desire, Wicked, Deeds

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

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• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

  Ossie Davis

  Busy, Lifetime, Asks

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• 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

  Farouk of Egypt

  Roots, Levels, Resistance

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