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

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

topic: Heart, Rights, People, Squatters

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

topic: Wall, Thinking, People, Squatters, Housing

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

- Alexander McCall Smith

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

topic: Thinking, Forever, World, Squatters

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

- Stewart Brand

topic: Cities, Humanity, Unemployment, Squatters

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

topic: Cynical, Holocaust, Littles, Squatters, Bandits

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.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Sunshine, Wind, Energy, Squatters, Orangutans

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

topic: Weed, Bird, Scare, Squatters, Fertilizer

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

topic: War, Government, Territory, Squatters

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

topic: Night, Doors, Stories, Squatters, Brazen

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Forgiveness, Pain, Long, Wronged, Squatters

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

- Cristela Alonzo

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

topic: Eight, Years, Diners, Squatters

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

topic: Fire, Light, People, Squatters, Fire Inside

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.

- Peter Coyote

topic: Beautiful, Religious, Book, Squatters

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

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

topic: Lying, Book, Men, Squatters

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

topic: Stars, Children, Party, Squatters, Ambulance

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

topic: Dad, Real, Hands, Filthy, Squatters

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

topic: Cancer, Different, Stories, Squatters

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

topic: Religious, Men, Religion, Squatters

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.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Technology, People, Village, Squatters, Villa