Quotes About Exploitation

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Capital is dead labor that, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it suck.

Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Almost all of our relationships begin, and most of them continue, as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.

I feel so guilty when I see orcas performing their stupid tricks in their little swimming pools, and when I see circuses or elephant abuse. I don't want to be in the same industry with these people.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

Las vidas de los animales también tienen valor! Tater no pidió que lo encerraran en un circo. No pidió que lo llevaran por todo el país en un remolque maloliente, ni que le ataran para ser exhibido delante de personas ignorantes. Dios no creó a los elefantes para que hicieran equilibrios sobre sus patas. Los creó para que vagaran libres.

not only deprives workers of the fruits of their labour by paying them 1/200th of the salary that goes to their CEO (the international average as of this writing, not including bonuses and stock options); it deprives workers of the very meaning of labour itself

The block had small offices and an outdoor arena where weekly slave-labor auctions were held. The slavery was permitted under an 1850 California law that allowed white people to buy Native American children as "apprentices," and to "bid" on Native Americans who were declared "vagrant," and oblige them to work off the cost of the bid. (The law, known as Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, was not repealed entirely until 1937.)

For if we are not careful, we may experience one or more perverse realizations of AI technology—situations in which AI fails to make life easier but instead leads to our own suffering or demise, or to the exploitation of other conscious beings.

The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.

Now, weavers who worked at home couldn't get anyone to buy their cloth unless they sold it for less. Since they made less money from each piece, they had to work longer. Weavers worked for sixteen hours a day, their fingers sore and their eyes red -- and still couldn't make enough money to buy food.