America Quote by Cutter Hodierne

The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are…

— Wilbur Smith

[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically…

— Peter Middlebrook

It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these…

— K'naan

The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore…

— Peter Middlebrook

“Piracy is not so much organized crime as it is a business, characterized by extremely efficient capital flows, low start-up costs, and few entry…

— Jay Bahadur

“When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic,…

— Ted Anthony Roberts

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the Caribbean' and…

— Peter Middlebrook

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the…

— Will Oldham

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

— Louis L'Amour

I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't…

— Cutter Hodierne