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In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. -- Carol Bellamy
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative. -- Margot Kidder
Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. -- Margot Kidder
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear. -- Martin Parr
Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative. -- Julian Baggini
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative. -- John Mackey
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. -- Mira Sorvino
Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. -- John Barton
It isn't those of us who oppose American aggression in the Muslim world who need manipulative, exploitative reminders about 9/11; it's those who cheer for these policies who are making a follow-up attack ever more likely. -- Glenn Greenwald
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.' -- John Mackey
We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' either. I think it's awful, exploitative and vulgar. -- Terry Wogan
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one. -- Brian Behlendorf
Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering. -- Jill Greenberg
Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone! -- Sue Limb
This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values -- Steven Biko
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative. -- Malcolm X
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose. -- Sharon Gannon
The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative. -- Ian MacKaye
Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative. -- Bill Bailey
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it. -- Andrew Solomon
I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it. -- Martin Parr
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices. -- Richard A. Falk
Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry, which has a direct knock-on effect on what gets published and how. -- Deborah Smith

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