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Occupy Wall Street is a real movement. -- Russ Feingold
There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters. -- Michael Moore
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. -- Ovid
I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines. -- Jami Attenberg
The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise. -- Noam Chomsky
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May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world. -- Sri Chinmoy
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. -- Thomas More
[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change. -- Edward Snowden
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time. -- Neil Gaiman
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. -- Saint Ignatius
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. -- Saint Ignatius
Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. -- Maurice Strong
I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing. -- Sarah Palin
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. -- Jim DeMint
When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in. -- Nigel Farage
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. -- Simon Baker
I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution. -- Woody Harrelson
I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty? -- David Letterman
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground. -- Sun Bin
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. -- James A. Forbes
The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America. -- Bernie Sanders
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. -- Jon Meacham
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement. -- Monica Crowley
I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors! -- Ani DiFranco
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
Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two. -- Elayne Boosler
Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country. -- Jodie Evans
If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent. -- Robert Greenwald
Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street insurgencies, and that have helped political candidates rally grass-roots support. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world. -- Rhys Ifans
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. -- Nigel Farage
I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists. -- Katie Pavlich
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At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. -- Vladimir Putin
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. -- David Harvey
I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street. -- Talib Kweli
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail. -- Alan Moore
We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy. -- Jill Stein
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. -- Peter M. Brant
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. -- Eric Alterman
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. -- Simon Baker
So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements. -- Ann Coulter
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement. -- David Harvey
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope. -- Elayne Boosler
Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. -- Frank Miller
Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen. -- Jay Leno
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. -- John Lydon
I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean. -- Henry Giroux
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power. -- Frederick Lenz
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power. -- Frederick Lenz
We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context. -- Clara Jeffery
In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities. -- Charles M. Blow
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. -- Henry Rollins
The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole. -- Mark Steyn
Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. -- Michael Moore
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up. -- Dana Spiotta
Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus. -- Jimmy Fallon
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 toward those they think are doing too well in our society. -- Colin Powell
Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis. -- Cindy Sheehan
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is - one that is simply ineffective. -- Edward Snowden
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 Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. -- Dan Rather
October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep. -- Trey Gowdy
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 the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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 do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?' -- Colin Powell
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. -- Henry Rollins
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant. -- Noam Chomsky
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? -- Artur Davis
As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now. -- Edward Snowden
Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues. -- Noam Chomsky
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. -- Sigmar Gabriel
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable. -- Susan Bysiewicz
The new elites have no allegiances to nation states and don't care about the damage they do to workers, the environment, or the rest of humanity. They are unhinged sociopaths, far removed from what the Occupy Movement called the '99 percent.' -- Henry Giroux
The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be. -- Viggo Mortensen
The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. -- Eliot Spitzer
The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent. -- Arundhati Roy
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. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. -- Noam Chomsky
You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society. -- David Harsanyi
When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street. -- Talib Kweli
I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes. -- Ai-jen Poo
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide. -- Janine di Giovanni
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. -- Pawan Kalyan
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself. -- Max Stirner
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. -- Cary Grant
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. -- Erma Bombeck
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. -- Hale White
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. -- John Bachman
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. -- Richard Dawkins
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. -- Isak Dinesen
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. -- Buzz Aldrin
Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. -- Kevin Mitnick
Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience. -- Max Stirner
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food. -- Mary Roach
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 a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that. -- David Suzuki
The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity. -- John Garamendi
We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. -- Grover Norquist
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.' -- Adora Svitak
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. -- Maya Angelou
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. -- Gary Zukav
Poetry should only occupy the idle. -- Lord Byron
Kentucky wants to occupy some clock -- Billy Packer
Logic and faith don't occupy the same side. -- Dani Shapiro
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind. -- Margaret Atwood
Fear and God do not occupy the same space. -- Dick Gregory
Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living. -- Flora Rheta Schreiber
Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space? -- James De La Vega
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. -- Ted Engstrom
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. -- Ted Engstrom
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy. -- Vandana Shiva
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily -- John D. Rockefeller
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) -- Tennessee Williams

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