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Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives. -- James Cook
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. -- Louise Brooks
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. -- Bernard Cornwell
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me. -- Joe Rogan
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry R. Luce
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s. -- Siouxsie Sioux
I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged. -- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. -- Mahmoud Abbas

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