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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. -- Theodor Adorno
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed. -- Yousef Saanei
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. -- Joyce Appleby
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. -- Stevie Wonder
The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it? -- Scott McClanahan
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. -- Bret Easton Ellis
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
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
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
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left. -- Todd Rundgren
We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil. -- Gerald R. Ford
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer. -- Erich Fromm
All art is exploitation. -- Sherman Alexie
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. -- Mason Cooley
Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. -- Simon Mainwaring
I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children. -- Jim Ryun
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. -- Arthur Erickson
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. -- Abu Bakr
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery! -- Karl Liebknecht
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. -- Georges Bizet
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. -- Jurgen Habermas
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace. -- Kailash Satyarthi
If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. -- Harold Bloom
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
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
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
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
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation. -- Tom Udall
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites. -- Richard Dawkins
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals. -- Peter Singer
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
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
The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed. -- Alan Huffman
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. -- Joe Slovo
After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. -- Gene Cernan
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
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
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. -- Spencer Bachus
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
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
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
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -- Nelson Mandela
The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. -- Alice Paul
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory. -- Pierre Bonnard
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation. -- Helen Keller
Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. -- Malcolm X
Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation. -- Rajneesh
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. -- bell hooks
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. -- Robert Nozick
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. -- Garrett Hardin
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the faÃ§ade of objective rationality. -- Herbert Marcuse
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. -- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. -- Bertrand Russell
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. -- Len Deighton
India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. -- Pervez Musharraf
People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. -- Ruth Wilson
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. -- Emma Goldman
Education is the best way to end the cycle of poverty and the exploitation of Children -- Radwan Chowdhury
Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels. -- Yanar Mohammed
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. -- Assata Shakur
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. -- Kshama Sawant
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. -- Fidel Castro
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. -- Emile M. Cioran
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely. -- Assata Shakur
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation. -- Jennifer Weiner
I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights. -- Craig Kielburger
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. -- Malcolm X
Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders. -- John le Carre
To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. -- Germaine Greer
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence. -- Rajneesh
If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. -- Lundy Bancroft
Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, thereâ??s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation. -- Dalai Lama
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. -- Adrian Goldsworthy
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. -- Tariq Ali
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. -- Peter Kropotkin
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done. -- Robert Rodriguez
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. -- Charles de Gaulle
P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation. -- Paulo Freire
Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome. -- Wayne Pacelle
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. -- Paul Theroux
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. -- David Harvey
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. -- Will Durant
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world. -- Norman Finkelstein
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. -- Che Guevara
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. -- Jim Stanford
We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation. -- Gary L. Francione
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. -- Herbert Marcuse
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.
The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4 -- Judith Lewis Herman
[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation. -- Bertrand Russell
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery. -- Albert J. Nock
Welfare reforms and the whole "happy" exploitation movement are not "baby steps." They are big steps"?in a seriously backward direction. -- Gary L. Francione
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role. -- Andrea Dworkin
I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation. -- Jean Arthur
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. -- Bix Beiderbecke
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past. -- Juan Somavia
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity. -- Germaine Greer

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