Quotes About Exploitation

that human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.

As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.

When the American president and his national security adviser speak of fighting terrorism alongside Russia, what they are proposing to the American people is terror management: the exploitation of real, dubious, and simulated terror attacks to bring down democracy. The

Slavery and immigration are two of the most common ways capital has replaced labor in a bounded society.

What exactly are capitalist productive relations? And how are children implicated in them?

exploitation (normally tethered to class) and oppression (normally understood through gender, race, etc.)

points the way toward thinking about how "gender and class intertwine in capitalist production."7

This book is an attempt to begin that process by highlighting the critical contribution of SRT to an understanding of capitalist social relations.

If workers' labor produces all the wealth in society, who then produces the worker? Put another way: What kinds of processes enable the worker to arrive at the doors of her place of work every day so that she can produce the wealth of society?

Ma mi chiedo se questo non sia il primo passo verso la modernizzazione che inevitabilmente nel giro di pochi anni, cura il tracoma ma porta anche un industriale di Hong Kong a installare quattro o cinque macchine da cucire in un androne de lMustang e a mettere quelle sorridenti donne, che adesso vanno al mercato, o lavano nel fiune, a cucire per otto ore al giorno le sue scarpe o le sue t.shirt

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

I mean that in a consumer society, the family is the means by which most people become tied to a cycle like this: go along with things, so long as you get enough to buy more and more things even though the whole world is exploited so that a relatively small number of people in this country - US! - can live well. (Our own land and air and water are also plundered in the interests of blind consumerism.)

The world is full of suffering and exploitation, and that fact keeps one in touch with the realities that make one's behavior a moral challenge.

Um lado mais obscuro da empatia cognitiva emerge quando alguém a usa para localizar as fraquezas de alguém, aproveitando-se delas. Esta estratégia caracteriza os sociopatas, que usam a sua empatia cognitiva para manipular. Não sentem ansiedade, pelo que a ameaça do castigo não os dissuade.

Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you.

I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited – with good results.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

We are all to some extent the products of an exploitive society, and it would be foolish and self-defeating to pretend that we do not bear its stamp.

The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order—a human order, that is, that accommodates itself both to other order and to mystery.

The first principle of the exploitive mind is to divide and conquer. And surely there has never been a people more ominously and painfully divided than we are—both against each other and within ourselves. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. Its stock in trade in politics is to sell despotism and avarice as freedom and democracy.

He thought rightly that we Americans, by inclination at least, have been divided into two kinds: "boomers" and "stickers." Boomers, he said, are "those who pillage and run," who want "to make a killing and end up on Easy Street," whereas stickers are "those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.