#occupation

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt. ↗

— King Hussein I

#believe #dialogue #force #great #land

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#businessman #forever #his #man #occupation

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#great ones #money #natures #ones #only

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. ↗

— Nancy Chodorow

#entails #less #lower #occupation #outside

Writing is a solitary occupation. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#solitary #solitary occupation #writing

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#busy #else #even #god #love

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#constantly #could #drudgery #else #haunted

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#human #human progress #maybe #our #overshadowed

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. ↗

— John McCarthy

#benevolence #benevolent #either #enough #few