Occupation Quotes - Page 24

• The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

  Ernst Mach

  Views, Intellectual, Return

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Peace, War, Russia

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

  Agnes Repplier

  Friendship, Always Trying, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Flying, Intellectual

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• 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

  Writing, Men, Skins

  August Strindberg (1969). “The Cloister”

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• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Inspiration, Siege, Under Siege

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• Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

  Terry Brooks

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Humorous, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, Men, Bears

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• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Knowledge, Fighting, Class

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• My sole occupation is love.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Love Life, Sole

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “The Essential St. John of the Cross”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Real, Safety

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• Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

  Alexander Borodin

  Music, Relaxation, Serious

  Letter to V. A. Krylov, 1867.

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• Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Mean, People

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• Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two weeks ago...three weeks ago, I was there!' And, little by little, in her memory, the faces all blurred together; she forgot the tunes of the quadrilles; no longer could she so clearly picture the liveries and the rooms; some details disappeared, but the yearning remained.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Memories, Two, Together

  Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Mark Overstall (2008). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.51, Oxford University Press

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• The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Gratitude, Women, Writing

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, March 15, 2016.

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless

  Isabella Macdonald Alden

  Mother, Children, Parenting

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• The military ain't there for the people's protection,
  They're just there to protect an investment.
  That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,
  Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting.
  Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons,
  9/11 generations pale in comparison.
  And you will learn a lesson repeated through history:
  That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Military, Rap

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• I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.

  Thomas Friedman

  Average, Vintage, Income

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• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Beautiful, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fun, Doing Nothing

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

  Amira Hass

  Choices, Discrimination, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

  Ben Katchor

  Appreciation, War, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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