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Quotes About Exploitation

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?
~ John James Audubon
It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
~ Robin Givhan
If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
~ Kate O'Mara
It is a cause of grave concern that the cyber world is being exploited by terror groups such as DAESH or ISIS to radicalise the gullible youth of our country.
~ Rajnath Singh
Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.
~ Gulzar
Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.
~ Lobsang Tenzin
Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.
~ Brendan Sexton III
The government [...] cannot be anything other than the organization of a minority. It is the aim of this minority to impose upon the rest of society a 'legal order', which is the outcome of the exigencies of dominion and of the exploitation of the mass of helots effected by the ruling minority, and can never be truly representative of the majority.
~ Robert Michels
Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
~ Robert Rodriguez
The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.
~ Robert Tressell
This may be the great Achilles' heel of the Internet under capitalism: the money comes from surreptitiously violating any known understanding of privacy.
~ Robert W. McChesney
He pleasures his body with drugs and deadens his soul with his savage amusements. Aye, and spreads the disease to those around him, until they take no satisfaction in a contest of skill that draws no blood, until games are only amusing if lives are wagered on the outcome. The very coinage of life becomes debased. Slavery spreads, for if it is accepted to take a man's life for amusement, then how much wiser to take it for profit?
~ Robin Hobb
The man's arrogance knows no bounds. No matter what anyone says or does to him, he sees the world only as it relates to him and what he wants. You haven't truly seen how he is. Any situation, he always finds a way to turn to his advantage. He will find some sort of profit from this. Some advantage for himself. Nothing else has ever mattered to him.
~ Robin Hobb
The Chalcedean slave trade had largely created the pirates and their settlements.
~ Robin Hobb
Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.
~ Robin Morgan
Pornography is the theory, and rape is the practice.
~ Robin Morgan
Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion -- until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.
~ Lisa See
That's how predators work. They give vulnerable people what they want or need, at first. They see a need, a desire, then they exploit, manipulate. When you're hooked, that's when the abuse starts.
~ Lisa Unger
from the outside most people can't tell the rapid exploitation of a belatedly recognized opportunity from deep-laid planning.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Do you really think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Contrary to general opinion, slave raids from Africa to the coasts of Europe were not uncommon. The raid on the village of Baltimore, a town in West Cork, Ireland, took place in 1631. More than one hundred people were carried away into slavery.
~ Louis L'Amour
From the start, he owned more shares of Standard Oil than anybody else and exploited every opportunity to augment his stake.
~ Ron Chernow
By 1907, however, they had exploited enough legal loopholes to become highly speculative.
~ Ron Chernow