Best Squatters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky.”

God Students Israel Colonialism Palestine Guns Poland Religious Extremism Jews Israeli Palestinian Conflict Palestinians Arabs Squatters Belarus Zionists Hebron Gush Emunim Yeshivas

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Everyone knows how to get a squat: you go along to an empty house at night, break in, change the locks and it’s yours. [...] Later we’ll have someone to jam the electricity meter with a pin so we have free electricity. Everyone does that.”

Punk 1970s Squatters Squats Squatter London Life

Book:Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

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

Thinking World Littles Forever Squatters

Book:The Careful Use of Compliments

Source: The Careful Use of Compliments

“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.”

Men Religion Church Religious Worst Territory Hierarchy Squatters

Author:Sonia Johnson

“Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.”

“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.”

Ifs Long Soul Waiting Rights Forgiveness Claims Forgiving Rage Settling Squatters

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

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

Years Firsts Eight Abandoned Diners Squatters

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“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.”

Different Stories Grows Poor Rich Changed Materials South Cancer Landscape Camps South Africa Get Rich Squatters

Author:Athol Fugard

“When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.”

Ifs Should Use Form Energy Force Natural Fronts Wind Property Woods Stores Cease Manifestation Fuel Sunshine Tides Electricity Coal Fence Apes Orangutans Squatters

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“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!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Streets Building Wall Empty Hey Thieves Housing Squatters

Author:Al Lewis

“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.”

Men Doe Said Book Lying Order Speak Tree Rocks Judging Fool Stones Bones Laughed Speculation Rags Chunks Reckoning Squatters

Book:Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“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.”

Stories Night Hours Doors Moved I Realized Staying Ritual One Night Sofas Brazen Roommate Squatters

Author:Tammara Webber

“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.”

People Ifs Heart Persons Enough Rights Forgiving Likes Squatters

Book:Time and Time Again

Source: Time and Time Again

“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.”

Want Needs Wells Asks Bits Bird Soil Weed Scare Guests Invitations Hints Rags Drained Fertilizer Squatters

Author:Norman Nicholson

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

Humanity Cities Unemployment Squatters

Author:Stewart Brand

“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.”

Source: Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .

“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?”

Ifs Said War Government Causes Protect Agree Property Slave Notion Excitement Civil War Abandon Territory Senators Sovereignty Hereafter Dissatisfaction Squatters

Author:Louis Wigfall

“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.”

People Ifs May Light Break Fire Car Building Theory Broken Window Leaving Tendencies Restaurants Bags Trash Sidewalk Vandals Fire Inside Squatters Broken Windows

Author:James Q. Wilson

“We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.”

People Today Technology Tomorrow Labor Misery Accomplish Productivity Soil Gaps Village Urban Brutes Countryside Fleeing Villa Advanced Technology Squatters Favelas

Author:Alvin Toffler

“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.”