Quotes About Being Exploited

#1. The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.

Bryant McGill

#2. Everywhere I turn I see it - credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How

Upton Sinclair

#3. The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Joan Robinson

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The sad thing was Seventeen would remain completely unaware she was being exploited, such were the ramifications of the insidious mind control programs.

James Morcan

#9. Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

Rius

#10. 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

#11. All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

Ray Lewis

#12. 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

#13. Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move into the twenty-first century with children still being exploited for their labour and denied their basic right to an education?

Craig Kielburger

#14. The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Joan Robinson

#15. There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

Nathalie Emmanuel

#16. I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.

Lily Cole

#17. Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.

Alicia Silverstone

#18. The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

Abraham Verghese

#19. 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

#20. Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.

Nur Muhammad Taraki

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

J. Michael Straczynski

#24. 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

#25. Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Wendell Berry

#26. The debt is being cynically exploited by the far right, with collusion of the Democrat establishment, to undermine what remains of social programs, public education, unions, and, in general, remaining barriers to corporate tyranny.

Noam Chomsky

#27. True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.

Lily Tomlin

#29. And being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

Winston S. Churchill

#30. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#31. 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

#32. The religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible

Christopher Hitchens