Aspire Quote by Wilbur Smith

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

— Michael Palin

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who…

— Cutter Hodierne

I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates…

— 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

With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is…

— Anonymous

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

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

— Ray Stevenson

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

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

— Amanda Lindhout

“On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black…

— Loung Ung

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

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

— Will Oldham