Occupied Quotes

328 quotes by 301 authors

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. — Alexis Tsipras
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom. — Remi Kanazi
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this… — Yasser Arafat
As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well. — George Habash
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. — William James
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of… — Alfred Bester
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So,… — Alan Furst
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the… — Desmond Tutu
The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza]… — Moshe Dayan
The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking… — Andrew Spano
If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever… — Rajneesh
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at… — Plato
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all… — Plato
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs… — Don Berliner
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose. — Molly Ivins
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might… — Eleanor Roosevelt

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