"Look, there's a colonial side to British charity, it's true; look at Yemen, right? We're the number one provider of weapons and bombs and expertise to Saudi Arabia that they use to bomb Yemen, to engineer a famine in Yemen. At the same time, we're the number two provide of aid to Yemen - and why not? Life gives you Yemen, you give Yemen aid."
React to this quote
More by Frankie Boyle
See allResonant Thoughts
"All my life was turned towards the progress of the people, the helping of man, and it leaped forward to meet the stronger hope, the lofty ideal of social brotherhood, the rendering possible to all of …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"The term is understood objectively rather than subjectively. Individuals, families and groups in the popula…"
— Peter Townsend (sociologist)"Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals."
— Roy T. Bennett"We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that "You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muha…"
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada"Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what migh…"
— Katherine Mansfield"The living world is not a marble palace. It is a higgledy-piggledy outcome of natural selection and the com…"
— John D. Barrow"When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the …"
— Swami Vivekananda
