Quotes of Exploitation - somelinesforyou

“ Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ”

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“ Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise. ”

- Suyin Han

“ The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport. ”

- Andrew Young

“ A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ”

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

“ Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. ”

- Han Suyin

“ Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ 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

“ The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights. ”

- Don Rose

“ Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ”

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

“ The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand. ”

- Joan Baez

“ The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. ”

- Claude Levi Strauss
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