#exploit

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#became #because #europe #exploited #know

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#exploiting #extremists #fear #form #like

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. ↗

— David Brooks

#just #poor #rich #them

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. ↗

— Dick Clark

#find #i #just #out #set

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#action movies #child #exploitation #film #film industry

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#came #change #change the world #complicity #denounce

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#any #associate #conducted #exploit #ghraib

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ↗

— Alan Kay

#act #computer #exploited #language #like

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #exploitation #nonviolent #vegan

This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat." "It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you destroy, the more humans you can bring into the world, and that makes it just about the holiest work there is. Once you exempt yourself from the law of limited competition, everything in the world except your food and the food of your food becomes an enemy to be exterminated. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food