Exploitation Quotes

• Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Years, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Children, War

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Usa

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Cancer, Evil

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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

  Karl Liebknecht

  Country, War, Long

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

  Abu Bakr

  Limits, Certain, Folly

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• Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Historical, Intellectual, Neutrality

  Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (2009). “Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

  Jim Ryun

  Children, Abuse, Growing

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Relationship, Running

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Hic et Ille"

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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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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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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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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• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Needs, World, Injustice

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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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• 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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• What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mean, Abuse, Black

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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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• 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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• The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Hands

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Innocence, Charming

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny, Witty, Men

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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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