Quotes About Exploitation

Millon et al. 1998. Psychopaths often care what others think, but only as part of a plan to manipulate or exploit others. They don't have emotions such as shame and guilt that make it painful for them when others see through their lies and come to hate them. They don't have an automatic unconscious sociometer.

We - society- inflict all sorts of injuries on people and then blame them for having scars. We sexualize and exploit and condemn them for being the living representations of our own desires. We use them and then blame them for being used

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!

maybe that's all history was: a succession of bullies and thieves, each

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Who would have known that much of the wealth in their nation's booming economy was created on the other side of the world by the most brutal mistreatment of other human beings, many of them women and children?

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Men are getting themselves turned into women at a rate of knots, but how many women are forking out wages to be turned into a poor, exploited man?

Lenin is often credited with coining the term "useful idiot," poleznyi durak in Russian, meaning one who can be used to spread propaganda without being aware of it or subscribing

The Leon Trotsky wing of the university hates capitalism with a vengeance. According to this faction, capitalism does nothing good; it only broadens the gap between rich and poor and results in the exploitation of people for the sake of money.

Avowed Marxist and tenured professor at the University of Texas, David Michael Smith, called capitalism "a system based on exploitation and oppression and domination and racism and war—and lots of other things."20 Right. And socialism is a system based on pretty butterflies and flowers and tolerance of all living creatures.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.

Multinational companies exploit national differences to abuse their workers, to dodge their taxes and to 'regulation shop' as a means to avoid meeting their responsibilities.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

The soap-box orators talked in the bitter cold at Marble Arch with their mackintoshes turned up around their Adam's apples, and all down the road the cad cars waited for the right easy girls, and the cheap prostitutes sat hopelessly in the shadows, and the blackmailers kept an eye open on the grass where the deeds of darkness were quietly and unsatisfactorily accomplished.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.

Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in—and we made Superman, after all.

Capitalists, he argued, will not agree to any social progress completely eliminating unemployment because such a program would reduce the supply of cheap labor. You will never persuade a capitalist to cause himself losses for the sake of satisfying people's needs.

We were never anything more than something she could manipulate

If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it.

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.