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I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field. -- Red Grooms
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. -- Fidel Castro
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. -- Desmond Tutu
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong
I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. -- Dan Savage
If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world. -- Derrick Jensen
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it. -- Aaron Paul
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. -- Zadie Smith
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. -- Iris Chang
80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein. -- Barton Seaver
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath. -- Malcolm X
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. -- Joseph Stalin
Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers. -- Natalie Portman
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens? -- Robert Winston
It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state. -- Heather Brooke
Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate. -- Kevin Mitnick
I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.' -- Lesley Gore
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' -- David Hockney
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. -- Emily Greene Balch
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. -- Smedley Butler
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. -- Tariq Ramadan
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. -- Barack Obama
Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy. -- Jane Pauley
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited. -- Matt Groening
Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. -- Roger Ebert
Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously. -- Nina Jacobson
I feel Motown really exploited me. -- Brenda Holloway
Man is always exploited through fear. -- Rajneesh
The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited. -- Henry Ford
Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools. -- David Addington
People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive. -- Terence Conran
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. -- Stephen White
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. -- Alicia Silverstone
We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited. -- Lauryn Hill
I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. -- John Piper
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex. -- David Frum
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it. -- bell hooks
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. -- Bela Lugosi
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism. -- Joan Robinson
Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes. -- Herman E. Daly
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit. -- James W. Loewen
The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. -- Henry Ford
Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage. -- Seth Godin
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses -- Gary Snyder
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism. -- Prem Kishore
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. -- Martin Parr
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most. -- John Stott
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside. -- Erich Maria Remarque
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. -- Ray Lewis
Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be. -- Doris Lessing
If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public. -- Nick Cannon
The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all. -- Joan Robinson
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. -- Clara Zetkin
There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little. -- Nathalie Emmanuel
Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. -- Scott McCloud
I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot. -- Stella Vine
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre. -- Hugh Hefner
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. -- bell hooks
I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. -- Theodore Roosevelt
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused -- Satish Kumar
The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited. -- Bryant McGill
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. -- John Steinbeck
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us. -- George W. Bush
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it. -- Jim Steranko
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America. -- Brian Eno
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. -- Scott McClanahan
Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful. -- Shantel VanSanten
Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it. -- George P. Shultz
It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful. -- Ricky Schroder
Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide. -- Kenneth Rogoff
We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed. -- Barack Obama
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited -- Alan Kay
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. -- Alan Kay
A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head. -- Milton Friedman
Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost. -- Alfred Capus
We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit? -- Ellen Page
People who think that they are being exploited should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: Good riddance? -- Thomas Sowell
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. -- Cyril Connolly
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form -- John Grierson
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited. -- Tupac Shakur
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. -- E. L. Doctorow
We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. -- Joey Skaggs
Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends. -- Tariq Ramadan
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names. -- Kim Jong Il
Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew. -- Kenneth Rogoff
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease. -- Storm Jameson
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will. -- Vladimir Lenin
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
We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other. -- Joseph Stalin
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era. -- Ghassan Kanafani
Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself. -- Roderick Nash
If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters. -- Benito Mussolini
I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at. -- William Hung
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards. -- Donna Rice
When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting. -- Juan Gabriel
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. -- Neil Abercrombie
Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat. -- Rose George
It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer. -- Lesley-Anne Down
You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others. -- George Ohsawa
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you. -- Marcus Garvey
The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words. -- Alex Abreu
The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear- with water, wtih birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch. -- William Howard Adams
All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. -- Victor Cousin
The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch. -- William Howard Adams
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power. -- Derrick Jensen
I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. -- David M. Shoup
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country. -- Isabel Allende
The Nazi leaders".treated Germany like a conquered land, a colony to be used and abused without consideration, to be exploited to the full, and its national spirit, happiness and wellbeing to be sedulously ignored -- Sebastian Haffner
We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered. -- T.I.

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