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Quotes About Exploitation

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.
~ Che Guevara
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
~ Christina Stead
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children
~ Christopher Wills
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
~ Edward Abbey
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
~ Ethel Waters
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
~ James Joyce
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
~ George Osborne
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
~ Frank Deford
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.
~ Christina Ricci
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
~ Courtney Love
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
~ Daniel Webster
The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.
~ Hillary Clinton
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
~ Ridgely Torrence
Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
~ Talib Kweli
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
~ Wilbur Smith
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
~ Walter Kerr