Squatters Quotes

• If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

  James Hilton

  Heart, Rights, People

  James Hilton (0101). “Time and Time Again”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

  Al Lewis

  Pared, Pensamiento, Gente

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• We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Forever, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.12, Anchor

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• There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

  Marca Stewart

  Cities, Humanity, Unemployment

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• Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

  Harold Covington

  Cynical, Holocaust, Assassins

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• Cuando aprendamos a almacenar electricidad, dejaremos de ser simios; hasta entonces somos orangutanes sin cola. Debemos utilizar las fuerzas naturales y obtener así toda nuestra energía. El sol es una forma de energía, y los vientos y las mareas son manifestaciones de energía. ¿Las utilizamos? ¡Oh, no! Quemamos leña y carbón, como los inquilinos queman la valla de enfrente como combustible. Vivimos como okupas, no como si fuéramos los dueños de la propiedad.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sol, viento, energía

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• Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

  Norman Nicholson

  Weed, Bird, Scare

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• I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?

  Louis Wigfall

  War, Government, Territory

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• We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.

  Tammara Webber

  Night, Doors, Stories

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• Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Rights, Long

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• The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Eight, Years, Diners

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars.

  James Q. Wilson

  Fire, Light, Car

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• Phil Cousineau ha creado un excelente libro que acompaña a la importante película que él y Gary Rhine han realizado en defensa de las tradiciones religiosas de los nativos americanos. [Los nativos americanos] son reconocidos en todo el mundo como guardianes de una parte vital de las órdenes originales del Creador y, sin embargo, se les considera poco más que ocupantes ilegales de sus hogares. Este libro presenta entrevistas impresionantes, bellas ilustraciones y da voz a los que no la tienen.

  Peter Coyote

  Beautiful, Religious, Book

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Stars, Children, Party

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

  Athol Fugard

  Cancer, Different, Stories

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• The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

  Sonia Johnson

  Religioso, Hombres, Religión

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• Sólo evitaremos que la gente huya del campo hacia favelas urbanas, villas miseria, barrios de chabolas y aldeas de ocupas ilegales cuando se cierre la brecha de productividad entre lo que el trabajo bruto en el suelo puede lograr y lo que la tecnología avanzada hace posible hoy - y hará posible mañana.

  Alvin Toffler

  Tecnología, Gente, Pueblo

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