Abstract Quote by Harry Belafonte

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid…

— Harry Belafonte

Al-Qaida became the new Soviet Union, and in the process, Bin Laden became a demonic, terrifyingly powerful figure brooding in a cave while he…

— Adam Curtis

“He was so far from being able to carry out such threats that one might conclude that the author of this document was utterly…

— Lawrence Wright

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects…

— Salman Rushdie

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

— Robert Fisk

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New…

— James Buchan

Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk…

— Robert Fisk

Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual…

— Alison Jackson

Bin Laden actually is the most European or westernized of all the Arab leaders. He's the one who is the most polished ironically. He's…

— Alexander Siddig

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

— Coretta Scott King

Bin Laden's role in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s had made him a hero around the Middle East.

— Peter Bergen

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

— Michael Scheuer