“To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are the occupations which give its most animating exercise, and its greatest triumphs, to a vigorous mind; and he who has never struggled with his fellow-creatures, is a stranger to half the sentiments of mankind.”
Adam Ferguson
“One of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to make America safer -- and Katrina exposed that clearly he has made America more vulnerable through his policies in Iraq.”
Cindy Sheehan
“I think it's critically important for all kinds of reasons that this not be an American occupation,”
Carl Levin
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
“Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living”
Xenophon
“There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.”
Gloria Steinem
“Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.”
William Lyon Phelps
