Occupier Quotes & Sayings

Liza took her time sipping her tea. That's what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and add them to your face. — Gwenn Wright

In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier, the dominant power, has to justify what it's doing. There is only one way to do it - become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you've lost your capacity to understand what's happening. — Noam Chomsky

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. — St. Jerome

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. — Zell Miller

But the day is coming when Jesus will return to earth and the reign of God will become an uncontested reality throughout the world. — Zondervan Publishing

Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might. — Jesse Jackson

I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels. — Muqtada Al Sadr

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated. — Maria V. Snyder

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier ... while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims. — Hanan Ashrawi

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them. — Ina May Gaskin

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him. — Hassan Nasrallah

The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else. — Ivanka Trump

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist? — Don DeLillo

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. — Tertullian

Oh, the child you threatened once, the young shoot you stepped on, the Tamil you teased, is standing with a gun in front of you. His presence is taking you by surprise. How can you understand that it is the occupier who creates a poorali? You once dealt the blow. Now you are imprisoned. When a fox tries to eat the goat, the goat must turn into a tiger and leap. That is the edict of the times. — Malaravan

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. — Marty Meehan

In addition to the alienation of farmers, large parts of the Mittelstand, growing numbers of industrialists and of the nationalist right by 1928, there was a further worrying trend facing the regime, the progressive disillusionment of young people and of the literary and cultural elites. The First World War and its aftermath had shaken loose many of the traditional ties binding young people to their families and to their local communities. As the Koblenz authorities noted in the early 1920s, 'the present sad appearance of the young, their debasement on the steeets, in pubs and dance halls results from the absence of firm authority by fathers and by schools during the war. The children of that time are today s young people who have little sense of authority and discipline.' In Cologne, it was observed that young people were spending too much time on 'visits to pubs, excessive drinking and dancing'. As — Ruth Henig

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense. — Noam Chomsky

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it. — Jules Shear

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance. — Muqtada Al Sadr

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul. — Max Blumenthal

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment. — Samantha Power

He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed
and this is where Vietnam and Iraq come in, that in a war between an imperialist occupier and the people who actually live there, the people will eventually prevail. They know the terrain. They have more at stake. They have nowhere else to go. — John Updike

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements. — Muqtada Al Sadr

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance. — Muqtada Al Sadr

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses. If we are to avoid mistake in weighing one against the other, we must clearly distinguish natural liberty, which is bounded only by the strength of the individual, from civil liberty, which is limited by the general will; and possession, which is merely the effect of force or the right of the first occupier, from property, which can be founded only on a positive title. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. I read people. — James A. Newman

I am confident that you brothers in parliament will champion the will of the people over that of the occupier. — Muqtada Al Sadr

as regards ownership the right of the first occupier is uncertain and badly founded. The right of conquest, on the other hand, rests on more solid foundations. It is the only right that receives respect since it is the only one that makes itself respected. — Anatole France

As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed. — Joshua K. Ingalls

I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything. — Eva Green

Fake it til you make it. Just make it. — Jesse Petersen