Exploitation Quotes

• 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

• The pornographers did a kind of stealth attack on our culture, hijacking our sexuality and then selling it back to us, often in forms that look very little like sex but a lot like cruelty.

  

  Gail Dines
  • Culture
  • Movement
  • Determination

• Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Revolution
  • Teach
  • Survival

• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Ideas
  • Charity
  • Common

• Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Humans
  • Values
  • Term

• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Purpose
  • Resist
  • Exploitation

• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  

  Elgin Groseclose
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Wealth

• When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Real
  • Film
  • Exploitation

• The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.

  

  Steven Biko
  • Poverty
  • White
  • Supremacy

• Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

  

  Simon Mainwaring
  • Community
  • Service
  • Social Media

• Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Wealth
  • Capitalist
  • Exploitation

• Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

  

  Charles P. Kindleberger
  • Exploitation

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Violence
  • Slavery
  • Modern

• All art is exploitation.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Exploitation

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