#exploit

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#exploitation #philosophy #death

To me, my husband was my son’s murderer. He was also my daughter’s molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai’s destroyer, Amma Sain’s tormentor, Ma’s humbler and the people’s exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us. ↗

— Tehmina Durrani

#exploitation #freedom #hypocrisy #murderer #religion

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#greed #love #loving #materialism #materialistic

Art seduces, but does not exploit. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #exploit #seduces

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cause #change #cheaply #climate #climate change

There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#exploit #finger #just #others #over

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#complex #cynical #exploitation #extreme #global

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#begun #enough #exploiting #faced #food

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#average #enables #exploit #his #judgment

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. ↗

— King Hussein I

#acts #against #condition #exploit #extremists