Quotes About Exploitation

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.