Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation,… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of… — Benedict Groeschel Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response:… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor… — bertrand russell Copy Share Image
Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“There is a vast mythology surrounding meat, but all the myths are in one way or another related to what I refer… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“*Customer service* is seldom about the customer; it is usually about the seller’s chances of making more money from that customer in… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
“The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If we purchase items made by underpaid and abused workers, we participate in their exploitation.” — Julie Clawson Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“When you feel small in a God made world, it's called realization and when you feel small in a man made world,… — Girish Kohli Copy Share Image
“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image