#occupation

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ↗

— August Strindberg

#expect #fellow #fellow men #men #occupation

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#approximately #been #carry #constants #estimated

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. ↗

— Renata Adler

#bored #boredom #cruel #cruelty #great

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist. ↗

— Danny Glover

#agreements #america #celebrate #energy #find

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. ↗

— William Hague

#any #clear #forbids #forces #foreign

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#believe #cannot #cooperation #gone #human

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

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

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