Quotes About Occupation

I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure.

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I would never fall in love with a ditch-digger.

Me and Cate Blanchett have the same job, technically.

Working is a great distraction technique.

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage years. But hacking is not my occupation, and I do not have any job within any intelligence, either Russian or some another.

People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

Los iraquíes querían el final de nuestra presencia así como del régimen de Sadam. Querían controlar su propio país y su propio petróleo. Los sirios querían recuperar el Golán. Los palestinos querían un Estado, aunque consistiera en menos del 22 por ciento del protectorado de Palestina, no un muro de seis metros y ocupación.

Aunque cada vez más iraquíes, como el hombre de Ramadi, afirmaban que antes de la captura de Sadam no se unirían a la resistencia contra la ocupación estadounidense por miedo a que—si los estadounidenses se retiraban—el dictador volviera al poder; bien, el motivo de ese temor había sido eliminado. La pesadilla había terminado; y la pesadilla estaba a punto de empezar. Tanto para los iraquíes como para nosotros.

26 de enero pregunté a nuestros lectores de The Independent qué teníamos pensado hacer cuando los iraquíes exigieran nuestra retirada de su país. «Puesto que estaremos ocupando un país extranjero. Estaremos ocupando Iraq igual que Israel ocupa Gaza y Cisjordania. Y cuando Sadam no esté, Osama bin Laden tendrá vía libre para exigir la liberación de Iraq como otro de sus objetivos.

Con todo, el ejército kuwaití parecía dispuesto a tomar represalias contra la comunidad palestina, pues algunos de sus miembros habían colaborado, sin duda, con los ocupantes iraquíes.

You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Your life is over when you stop living it. If you can truly retire you had a job but not an occupation.

A soldier knows that a satisfactory observation point provides an unobstructed view to the front and adequate security to the flanks and the rear. He knows it provides protection from the elements and concealment of the observers. He knows it offers a reasonable likelihood of undisturbed occupation for the full duration of the operation.

You should never ask What do you do for a living? What is your job?". You simply practice the following eight words. How do you spend most of your time?

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.