#exploit

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#exploitation #philosophy #mythology

Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#equality #exploitation #femininity #masculinity #rape

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer. ↗

— Lesley-Anne Down

#being #breast cancer #cancer #challenging #died

I don't think you should exploit your own pain. ↗

— Laura Linney

#i #own #pain #should #think

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People." (Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918) ↗

— Eugene Victor Debs

#exploitation #fundamentalism #oppression #patriotism #religion

Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#contributors #exploiting #government #high #intimidate

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#art #bad #bad luck #consists #exploit

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#black #discrimination #economic #economic power #exploitation

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