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• Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

  Anna Lindh

  Frustration, Ideas, People

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• Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Law, Community, Enforcement

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• The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Average, Suggestions, Advertising

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• Conflicts are fueled by the tendency of the powerful to exploit the power and the anger and frustration of the powerless, which turns into violence. International Solidarity Movement activists are attempting to confront the exploitation of power and to bring back hope to the powerless.

  Ghassan Andoni

  Powerful, Frustration, Movement

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• But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

  Gordon Parks

  Groups, Records, Might

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• It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

  Joan Robinson

  Growth, Economic, Terrible

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Progress

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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• From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

  Simon Schama

  Challenges, Violence, Revolution

  Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK

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• Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sports, Sex, Way

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

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• We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.

  Friedrich Engels

  Reality, Two, Political

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

  Errico Malatesta

  Organization, Boss, Enemy

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.45, PM Press

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• Psychics exploit the human beings natural desire that longs for something higher. … The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with the opposite sex…psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Sex, Opposites

  "Christine O’Donnell Thinks Psychics Are Evil Pimps" by Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

  C. S. Lewis

  Self, Want, Natural

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Abuse, Needs

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, Rodale Books

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• As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Long, Feel Good, Easy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  Vincent Canby

  Curiosity, Connections, Fiction

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• What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Selfish, Free Gifts, Perfection

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

  David Brooks

  Competition, Rich, Poor

  "The Trouble With Diversity" by Thought Matters, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2016.

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• I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Female, Paint, Resent

  "Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83" by Grace Glueck, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2011.

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• Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

  Daniel Boone

  Taken, Adventure, Men

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• So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known.

  Evan Parker

  Unique, Saxophone, Possibility

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• Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.

  Neville Goddard

  Wise, World, Fool

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Tradition, Made

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.259, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Each business is a victim of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than the ability to exploit it. Digital Darwinism does not discriminate. Every business is threatened.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Doe, Digital

  Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.378, John Wiley & Sons

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