Exploitation Quotes - Page 2

• If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

  Fredric Jameson

  Reality, Resistance, West

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

  Alice Paul

  Abortion, Ultimate

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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• I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

  Assata Shakur

  Political, Racist, Revolutionary

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• The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Blind Belief, Atheism, India

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Law, Naked, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.189, A&C Black

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• Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

  Thomas Sankara

  Fighting, Gun, Men

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• Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Nails, Coffins

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• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  Oliver Tambo

  Black, Discrimination, Oppression

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• America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Thinking, America, People

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• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Equality, Excellence

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• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  John Grierson

  Drama, Exotic, Earth

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• Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

  Roger Mahony

  Broken, Abuse, Church

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• But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

  Julie Taymor

  Movie, Men, Thinking

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• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

  Han Suyin

  Race, Way, World

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• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Southern, Rising

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fire, Body, Four

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• Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

  Hoyt Vandenberg

  Military, Believe, Air

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• First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1867). “Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.25

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• The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mirrors, Law, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (1978). “Minima Moralia”, p.148, Verso

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• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Abuse, Invisible

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• Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Communism, Weak

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.132, AK Press

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