#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

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#german #government #occupation #occupier #orders

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

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blessed #complete #congenial #forces #heart

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

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ↗

— Queen Christina

#last #life #long #necessary #occupation

Writing is a solitary occupation. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#solitary #solitary occupation #writing

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #areas #aside #began #early