World Trade Center attacks can refer to multiple attacks on the World Trade Center in the U.S. city of New York:
- 1993 World Trade Center bombing, in which the complex was damaged
- September 11 attacks, in which the complex was destroyed
Famous quotes containing the words world, trade, center and/or attacks:
“If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)
“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)