Quotes About Exploitation

Labour had become expensive and your average lord could now make more money out of sheep than he could out of his peasants. There was more wool on sheep, for a start, and you could also eat them – which is possible with peasants but socially taboo – so the lords started to throw the expensive, troublesome and uneatable peasants off their land and replace them with sheep.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

In this era where the war on terror is used as an excuse to exploit and plunder, and sell off our public lands, in this new world where the World Bank and World Trade Organization honor corporate rule over local enterprises, and where environmental issues are being usurped in the favor of more jobs and a robust economy, Where is the place for wilderness?

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

Noble cheated. He brought in rabbits somebody else killed.

the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts). The advanced degree these students earn is, as Marc Bousquet has argued, simply a by-product of this systemic exploitation, and not meant to carry value forward as a basis for high-wage employment" (Kelsky).

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The intellectual desolation, artificially produced by converting immature human beings into mere machines.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

But we must realize that even this tendency to restrict the exploitation of class privileges is a fairly common ingredient of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is not simply amoral. It is the morality of the closed society—of the group, or of the tribe; it is not individual selfishness, but it is collective selfishness.

He targets women who need help of some kind, then offers it to them. In the end, the only person he's helping is himself." Molly wiped away the wetness on her cheeks. "Thank you for saying that. In my heart, I know it's true. I feel like such a fool.

It's the same thing as any colonial structure anywhere: The business of making money depends on having a peon culture.

I had not realized how much anger I held against my heart for all the people who use others as nothing more than tools to build a house for themselves, who wrap chains around others and then claim they have the right and even the obligation to do so.

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.