Quotes About Occupation

The conquering army had perpetrated untold atrocities. The Japanese had occupied my home and twice forced us to leave the land I loved.

Whenever they occupied Belgian or French territory, the Germans would order all pigeons in the region destroyed.

Con la ocupación, los soviéticos habían emitido un exceso de moneda y provocado con ello su devaluación, de modo que todo se compraba y se vendía a cambio de cigarrillos.

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

Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

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.

When the game begins, let your rook remain in its position as the knight and the bishop advance to occupy the empty squares created by the moved pawns.

I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure.

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

William Shakespeare

O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

Caucasian laborers could not compete with the Chinese, could not live upon a handful of rice and work for a pittance, and found themselves being steadily crowded out from occupation after occupation by the thrifty, skillful Orientals, who, with their yellow skin and strange, debasing habits of life, seemed to them hardly fellow men at all, but evil spirit, rather.

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.

For decades, the massacres at Kalinin, Starobelsk, and Katyn had been a symbol for the Poles of Moscow's cruelty and imperial grip. For a Pole merely to hint that the Soviet Union was responsible for the massacres was a radical, even suicidal act, for it made clear the speaker's point of view: the "friendship of peoples," the relationship between Moscow and Warsaw, was one based on violence, an occupier's reign over its satellite.

Not all of it. We are, as a gender, undereducated and infantilized to the point of idiocy. But those of us who have been given the benefit of learning and useful occupation, well, we are proof that the traditional notions of feminine delicacy and helplessness are the purest poppycock.

We are, as a gender, undereducated and infantilized to the point of idiocy. But those of us who have been given the benefit of learning and useful occupation, well, we are proof that the traditional notions of feminine delicacy and helplessness are the purest poppycock

pacifisme extrême, il le maintient lors de la mobilisation, ce qui lui vaut son incarcération quelque temps, tandis qu'en 1944, malgré une vie publique très discrète pendant l'Occupation, il est arrêté à nouveau, comme Vichyssois cette fois.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.