Quotes About Occupation

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française

Any occupation had to be better than wallowing through a sky filled with damp carbon deposits — the excrement of seven million automobiles.

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.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Whatever their occupation, almost all organization people feel their particular job is depression-proof.

For at least a century before the 1914 war, Europeans had regarded it as axiomatic that someday the Middle East would be occupied by one or more of the Great Powers. Their great fear was that disputes about their respective shares might lead the European powers to fight ruinous wars against one another.

By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.

As Orwell noted, a population busy working, even at completely useless occupations, doesn't have time to do much else.

There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems the foundation of most of our passions and pursuits.

Whoever occupies a territory imposes on it his own social system.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.