Quotes About Exploitation

there was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women's capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.

So the worker works part of the day for their wages, part of the day to pay for equipment, loans, raw materials and part of the day to create the profit. So the worker works part of the day for free, creating the profit not for himself or herself but for the capitalist. And

Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in those resource-rich places as mad as natives were at the practices of the colonial empires exploiting them two hundred years ago.

Paul sarcastically notes that the Corinthians are so wise, and this wisdom of theirs is the basis for them "suffering fools gladly." He says that they will tolerate and put up with men who exploit them—but are in effect intolerant of true shepherds. As the people of God, we are being abused by the leadership of the modern evangelical movement—by this I mean the men standing behind the cash registers—and we cravenly submit. We know the taste of boot polish.

Taking advantage of someone that gives you their everything can be dangerous.

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

I used my intuition like a weapon; whatever insecurity and weakness I sensed in him, I exploited.

Ghouls, perhaps. Some here are certainly that. What else can we call one who thrives on ripping out another's throat, or on deceiving people into ruin or servitude. I would say they are ghouls.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

the power men everywhere wield over women . . . has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegal control' [Adrienne Rich]

Unfortunately, what anti-human trafficking NGOs [non-governmental organizations] really do is instead quite damaging: they normalize existent labor opportunities for women, no matter how low the pay, dangerous the conditions, or abusive an environment they foster. And they shame women who reject such jobs.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Property is organized robbery.