Quotes About Exploitation

Within the media, the way that women are portrayed - especially young women - sometimes there is a lot of sexual objectification and, I would say, 'lad culture.' These are all things that connect with domestic abuse.

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.

When someone else is making money off of you and using your body, you need to step off the carousel.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.

Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

People who drain others have a certain world they want to get to when they die, and you're their ticket!

The dead are ever refashioned, for they have no defence against those who would use or abuse them – who they were, what their deeds meant.