Quotes about Occupation
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
— Dorothy Sayers
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
— Anne Frank
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
— Cicero
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
— Cicero
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Duke Ellington
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.
— Muqtada al Sadr
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
— Desmond Tutu