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Quotes About Exploitation

All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it's everywhere, even if it's some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn't a thing to do with us.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Because of the nature of sexual exploitation by therapists and the consequences of transference phenomena, it is entirely possible that a victim may not realize that she has been victimized or recognize the extent of the harm within the prescribed period. It is often not until many years later, perhaps after reentering therapy with another therapist, that she comes to understand that she was a victim of exploitation.
~ Joel Friedman
while Harry Anslinger claimed to be fighting the Mafia, he was in fact transferring a massive and highly profitable industry into their exclusive control.
~ Johann Hari
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property."
~ Johann Most
As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.
~ Stephanie Mills
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
~ E. M. Forster
In his book, Jüdisches Erwerbsleben, Georg Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI's great uncle, wrote: "Jewish commerce can be characterized by two manifestations: 1) it is based on the exploitation of the work of others without any productive activity of its own and 2) it is characterized by gambling and speculation on the differential in values as the way to achieve riches.
~ E. Michael Jones
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
~ E.L. Doctorow
They knew that Jamaica produced sugar, rum and bananas, that Nigeria produced cocoa, and that British Guiana had large natural resources; but these names, though as familiar as the products with which they were associated, were of places far away, and no one seemed really interested in knowing anything about the peoples who lived there or their struggles towards political and economic betterment.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
Donald Trump's presidency unleashed forces howling beneath our politics since the tumult of the 1960s. For decades, politicians stoked and exploited white resentment.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
~ Edmund Burke
Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.
~ Edward Abbey
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?
~ Anonymous
They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.
~ Anonymous
exploitation, demonization of nations and cultures, militarization of societies, abuses of human rights, criminal acts of assassination under the guise of protection, and endemic and epidemic fear.
~ Anthony J. Marsella
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
~ Margot Kidder
These puppy mills are horrific. It's totally for-profit breeding. It's despicable.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
There's nothing pure about capitalism.
~ Michael Moore
I don't want people to think I'm exploiting my followers.
~ Drew Pinsky
I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it for the love.
~ Sergei Polunin
When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite a lallu actually everybody would fool me, exploit me for my work and talent and I would cry about it later.
~ Richa Chadha
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
~ Cesar Chavez
Without a free man, there is no free market. That's called exploitation.
~ Li Lu
The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.
~ Chris Hansen