"Osama Bin Laden and George Bush were both terrorists. They were both building international networks that perpetrate terror and devastate people’s lives. Bush with the Pentagon, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank. Bin Laden with Al-Qaeda. The difference is that nobody elected Bin Laden... The United States supported Saddam Hussein and made sure that he ruled with an iron fist for all those years. Then they used the sanctions to break the back of civil society. Then they made Iraq disarm. Then they attacked Iraq. And now they’ve taken over all its assets."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Arundhati Roy in The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy (2008)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World_Bank
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
World Bank
28 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by World Bank →
Related Quotes
"I would encourage every single business in the world, if they haven't done it already, to become climate change liter…"
"The economy in the Gaza Strip is "collapsing" mainly due to the 11-year blockade on the coastal enclave in addition t…"
"The “Accelerating India’s COVID-19 Social Protection Response Programme” will focus especially on making social benef…"
"The Horn of Africa finds itself at the epicentre of the worst locust outbreak we have seen in a generation, most prob…"
"As we sat around the table discussing world events, we were especially fascinated by McNamara's role as president of …"
"In 2004, oil began to flow through the World Bank-financed Chad-Cameroon pipeline. The $3.7 billion project is the se…"
"The World Bank’s long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to rebrand itself as a “knowledg…"
"On the morning of May 27th this year, the staff of the Legal Affairs Office of the World Bank encountered an ugly rac…"
"Oh what a lovely big stocking-filler for the Kiev regime this week from Washington. Just in time for Christmas too, a…"
"We’ve set two goals: ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. How are we going to get there? Ge…"