Exploitation Quotes

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid o...

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a...

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Thank you," he says."Thank who?""I don't know.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the ...

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...

It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These ...

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world the...

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, p...

With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even t...

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberali...

Alfred . . . stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, the right of the stronge...

O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world runnin...

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it ...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the takingit away from those who have a different comp...

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more...

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production...

In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bonda...

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victo...

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the admini...

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they woul...

In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actuall...

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...

Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love...