Famous quotes containing the words chartered, bank and/or asian:
“When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.”
—Han Suyin (b. 1917)