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Quotes About Exploitation

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
~ Stanley Kubrick
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
~ Karl Liebknecht
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
~ Fidel Castro
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
~ Joseph Conrad
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.
~ Jen Lilley
Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.
~ Lydia M. Child
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
~ Malcolm X
Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.
~ Evo Morales
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
~ Edward Bond
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
~ Victor Gollancz
Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
~ Tom Morello
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
~ Marc Maron
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.
~ Peter Allison
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
~ Pierre Bonnard
Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.
~ Kris Rafferty
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
~ Julian Huxley
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.
~ James W. Loewen
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.
~ James W. Loewen
In a nutshell, over the decades the national policies of the Republicans had raped the region while the actions of many state and local Democrats too often were designed to preserve the assets of a select few at the expense of just about everyone else.
~ James Webb
Humans will market anything to make a fucking profit. Religion, war, love, hate, sex, violence, pain, humor, emotion... all for fucking paper. We are pathetic beings.
~ James Wheeler
You never saw them; you never met them; you were never touched by their suffering except on the evening news or at the occasional fundraiser. They were what they were because they were uncivilized, unteachable, underprivileged and unsalvageable. They were the underclasses, and you found a use for them, because without their cheap labor and their primitive wars, your own world of mirrored towers and imported luxuries and megabuck negotiations could never exist.
~ Janet E. Morris
Today, the best-selling titles for blacks are in a genre most whites have never even heard of: "ghetto lit." This is the pulp-novel equivalent of rap music—books that glorify drugs, violence, hot sex, easy money, and the pimping life.
~ Jared Taylor