Wilhelm Wexler: We cannot control the things life does to us.
The International (2009)
They are done before you know it, and once they are done, they make you do other things. Until at last everything comes between you and the man you wanted to be.
Umberto Calvini: The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn’t to control the conflict, it’s to control the debt that the conflict produces. You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates.
You control the debt, you control everything.
You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt.
Louis Salinger: Based on everything I’ve read about you, you seem like the kind of man who aspired to die for something more than this.
Wilhelm Wexler: Well, this is the difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
[thanks to The International movie]