Quotes About Exploitation

Maldevelopment is the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected and interdependent systems, that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, injustice and violence. It is blind to the fact that a recognition of nature's harmony and action to maintain it are preconditions for distributive justice.

Modern science, as we have noted earlier, has a world-view that both supports and is supported by the socio-political-economic system of western capitalist patriarchy which dominates and exploits nature, women, and the poor.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.2

When Joseph Conrad saw how Europeans behaved in Congo in 1890, he described them as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage…To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe." More than a hundred years later, not much has changed.

Between 1914 and 1919 young men and women, disastrously pure in heart and unsuspicious of elderly self-interest and cynical exploitation, were continually re-dedicating themselves - as I did that morning in Boulogne - to an end that they believed, and went on trying to believe, lofty and ideal.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

What kind of society turns its young people into a profit center for the debt industry?

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The nature of business is swindling.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.

O brilho do diamante são as lágrimas dos trabalhadores da Companhia. A dureza do diamante é uma ilusão: não é mais que gotas de suor esmagadas pelas toneladas de terra que o cobrem.

Slaves, like oxen and sheep, were known as 'live money'.

The financial penalties for murder, for example, were graded according to the 'worth' of the victim. It was a harsh and divisive society, only made possible by the continuous exploitation of the unfree.

In the Victorian era, a flapper had been a child prostitute;