"Friendship is also about liking a person for……" — Paul Theroux
"Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation."
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148 Quotes by Paul Theroux
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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his…
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and…
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.
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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
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The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the…
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors…
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More Exploitation Quotes
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the…
— Joe Baca
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the…
— Carol Bellamy
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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
— Theodor Adorno
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented…
— Bertolt Brecht
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial…
— Unknown Author
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all…
— Greg Mortenson
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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation…
— Helen Keller
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