Quotes About Exploitation

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Watson knew that the lien system merely provided the shackles of the farmer's economic slavery. It was only the machinery of exploitation. How was it that cotton had fallen from a dollar a pound at the close of the War to an average of twenty cents in the 'seventies, nine cents in the 'eighties, and seven cents in the 'nineties—a level below the cost of production—and had stayed there?

those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.

General Robert Baden-Powell, later founder of the Boy Scouts, drastically cut African rations in an attempt to spare not just his own men but any white civilians trapped in the town with them. His plan was to starve the native population until they were forced to break out of the besieged city in search of food, thus reducing the number of mouths to feed.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

It's the logical consequence of removing valuable artefacts from native cultures. This sort of pandering to American greed, at the expense of the dignity and self-determination of the cultures concerned, is certain to cause long-term results—

Ironically Britain claimed the whole continent simply in order to claim a few isolated harbours astride trade routes. It was like a speculator who, buying a huge wasteland flanking a highway because it had a few fine sites for road cafes and filling stations, found later that much of the land was fertile and productive.

Property is organized robbery.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Cults exploited people, and those who got sucked in, especially on the bottom layer of the hierarchy, weren't usually bad people. They were looking for something better, a little bit of hope, or a way to deal with overwhelming things in their life. Instead, they ended up as free labor, brainwashed and used, their vulnerabilities and fears molded into a leash that held them in place.

He felt as if he were being used, as if Willy were using him as a hard neutral surface against which to crush, like insects, the thoughts which haunted him.

Comprobaréis, señora, que los conquistadores carecen de vergüenza: llegan como mendigos, se comportan como ladrones y se creen señores.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

Los hombres más peligros que he visto por estos lados no son indios, sino traficantes de armas drogas y diamantes, caucheros, buscadores de oro, soldados, y madereros, que infectan y explotan esta región —rebatió el sacerdote y agregó que los indios eran primitivos en lo material, pero muy avanzados en el plano mental, que estaban conectados a la naturaleza, como un hijo a su madre.

Vamos a acabar con los privilegios de la oligarquía, la Iglesia, los latifundistas y el resto de los explotadores del pueblo. Debemos defender la democracia, amigos; pero recuerden que no todo ha de ser política. Sin ciencia, industria y técnica no hay progreso posible, y sin música y arte no hay alma

The traders standing nearby, or really most anyone doing just well enough to pay for the services of people like him, needed to be reassured that those they were considering hiring were in a state of sufficient wretchedness that they could be paid as little as possible for their labor, and never succeed enough to pull themselves up from that state. Thus, the boss men reassured themselves of their own importance. Pull-down-and-keep-down syndrome was how Elimane thought of it.

Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.