#occupation

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#because #come #hillary #i #iraq

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#because #live #myths #our #preoccupation

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. ↗

— Peter Singer

#america #around #clearer #damage #doing

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#man #noblest #occupation #publication #search

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#achiever #mind #must #never #occasional

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul. ↗

— Miranda July

#writing-craft #metaphor

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ↗

— William Congreve

#come #faculty #father #father time #fools

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#army #been #beginning #detained #during

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. ↗

— Robert Shea

#conflict #creates #division #inequality #inevitably

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#because #childhood #entire #father #flights