Occupy Quotes

354 Occupy quotes by 301 unique authors

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How… — Colin Powell
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and… — Colin Powell
Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world. — Bonnie Raitt
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in… — Dan Rather
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may… — Mitt Romney
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one… — Eliot Spitzer
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly… — Matt Taibbi
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to… — Christopher Walken
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of… — Douglas Rushkoff
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force… — Douglas Rushkoff
Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government.… — Douglas Rushkoff
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,… — Thomas Jefferson
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but… — Marcel Proust
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts… — Thomas Mann
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as… — Carl Sagan

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