Exploitation Quotes

• The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Human
  • Fight
  • Exploitation

• The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

  

  Rene Cassin
  • Evil
  • Conscience
  • Speech

• The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Profit

• 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
  • World
  • Race
  • Imperialism

• Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Evil
  • Confirmation

• Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • War
  • Domination
  • Exploitation

• He wants quickness and explosion off the ball. He's a real up-tempo guy.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Real
  • Guy

• 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 Chingon
  • Giving
  • Running
  • Moving

• I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

  

  Craig Kielburger
  • Children
  • Rights
  • Give Up

• Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Americans
  • Injustice
  • Exploitation

• India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • Domination
  • Exploitation

• An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Exploitation
  • Astonishing
  • Prosper

• The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Century
  • Empire
  • Exploitation

• So much of today's food is based on the exploitation of animals and the environment. Yes, it's cheap, but at what cost?

  

  Steve Ells
  • Food
  • Animals
  • Exploitation

• Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

  

  Helen Keller
  • War
  • Exploitation

• We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

  

  Alfred W. Crosby
  • Decisions
  • Societies
  • Exploitation

• A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Occupation
  • Exploitation

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Exploitation

• When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Community
  • Crazy
  • Ideas

• I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, "We're going to do it like Roger Corman did it," as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it's nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn't seem that fun. Maybe that's just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Fantasy

• The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people of their right to education. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women. Sixty-six percent of countries have no laws to protect women from domestic abuse, and battery is the largest cause of injury to women in America.

  

  Alice Glass
  • Women
  • Injury
  • Exploitation

• Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Teaching
  • Destruction
  • Exploitation

• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • America
  • 9/11
  • Intimidation

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

  

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
  • Intellectual
  • Oppression
  • Neutrality

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