#occupation

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#did #europeans #hamas #launch #list

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

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

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

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#also #always #changed #college #doctor