Quotes About Exploitation

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Once a 'Romeo Pimp' has gained a victim's trust, he systematically breaks down her resistance, support systems, and self-esteem. Victims are coerced into submission through gang rape, confinement, beatings, torture, cutting, tattooing, burning, branding, being deprived of basic needs, and threats of murder."   —The State of Human Trafficking in California

Traffickers target victims on the telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in after-school programs.

The average entry age of American minors into the sex trade is 12-14 years old.

Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or the enjoyment of private property. For socialized human beings were prone to deceive and to exploit others while pretending to be public-spirited.

Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.

Each year, nearly 12,000 Nepali girls are sold by their families, intentionally o r unwittingly, into a life of sexual slavery in the brothels of India. W orldwide , the U.S. State D epartmen t estimates that nearly half a millio n children are trafficked into the sex trade annually.

I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

There are names for people who take advantage of woman who are not in full control of themselves".

Sex slaves can rarely defend themselves, and the dead are even worse off in this instance than the living. The

Historically and still today, men of many cultures have sought to transcend their own bodies while reducing women and animals to their body parts. Seeing themselves as more rational and self-determined, men claim the right to rule over those they see as more emotional, impulsive, and bound to bodily rhythms. Reduced to their bodies, women and animals are liable to be made into meat either literally, as in butchery, or figuratively, as in pornography.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

podemos decir que los "chulos bancarios" son tan despreciables como los proxenetas comunes.

The essence of what they said was that man made God, not God made man, and that the duty of every Communist is to rid himself of the supernatural bondage of religion; that religion is used by the powers that be in order to keep the masses of the people in docile submission to exploitation. Therefore, the liberation of the masses of humanity is dependent upon their emancipation from religious ideology.

Cannot the labourers understand that by over-working themselves they exhaust their own strength and that of their progeny, that they are used up and long before their time come to be incapable of any work at all, that absorbed and brutalized by this single vice they are no longer men but pieces of men, that they kill within themselves all beautiful faculties, to leave nothing alive and flourishing except the furious madness for work.

Les philanthropes acclament bienfaiteurs de l'humanité ceux qui, pour s'enrichir en fainéantant, donnent du travail aux pauvres.

Christopher Columbus himself established the template for the newcomers' view of the aboriginal population. "They ought to make good and skilled servants," he wrote; "I think they can very easily be made Christians. … I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I please.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

La guerra es una masacre entre gente que no se conoce, para provecho de gente que sí se conoce pero que no se masacra.

As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

From the first, the act of conquest, which reduces persons to the status of things, is necrophilia

As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation. Further, they are apt to react in a passive and alienated manner when confronted with the necessity to struggle for their freedom and self-affirmation. Little by little, however, they tend to try out forms of rebellious action. In working towards liberation, one must neither lose sight of this passivity nor overlook the moment of awakening.