Exploitation Quotes

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(on Hollywood) I hated the place - not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

- Jean Arthur

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

- Audrey Hepburn

On Lolita (1997): I think there`s enough exploitation out there that it`s not nescessary to do more.

- Natalie Portman

The exploitation films were made in such an artless way with these big wide shots of Sunset Boulevard or of Arcadia or downtown L.A. or wherever. In mainstream films, especially in the 1980s, the Los Angeles you saw wasn`t the real one; it was a character with this back-lot sort of atmosphere. They tried to luxuriate it. In exploitation films, you see what the place really looked like, you see the bars and mom-and-pop restaurants.

- Quentin Tarantino

When I give props to these movies, you have to understand - it`s not like they were all good. There`s an expression: You have to drink a lot of milk before you can appreciate cream. Well, with exploitation movies, you have to drink a lot of milk-gone-bad before you can even appreciate milk! That`s what part of the love of these movies is - going through the rummage bin and finding the jewels.

- Quentin Tarantino

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It`s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Not to put too fine a point on it, there`s something about the shame that goes with sexual exploitation, deviance, whatever. As a woman, having a baby psychologically erases it all from your body. And that, for me, was incredibly important.

- Thandie Newton

Irony ruined everything. I wish my movies could have played at drive-ins, but they never did, because of irony. Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody`s in on the joke now. Everybody`s hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

- John Waters

I turned down the OBE because it`s not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who`ve got it. It`s all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest.

- Ken Loach

I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone, and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don`t believe it will be based on the color of the skin...

- Malcolm X

To me, the moment that the state has a compelling interest in is precisely when human life is most vulnerable -- the very young, the very old, and all of us in between who is some ways are handicapped, disabled, are vulnerable to exploitation, ... Those of us who are able-bodied, who are able to articulate our own interests, who have access to all the resource in society, we really don`t need the state`s help. We`ll do just fine. It`s the others that concern me. And for the state to turn that argument on its head and say that as you approach your death, the state has less and less of an interest in your life, is to me completely bizarre.

- Carlos Gómez

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

- Ahmad Shah Massood

The mother`s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

- Ahmed Ghneim

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation`s laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

- Al Zappala

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

- Alan Buddendeck

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.

- Alan Woody

The old system of exploitation of colonies and the monopolization of their trade for the benefit of the mother country has practically disappeared.

- Alberto Madrigal

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

- Alice Golembo

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

- Alice Maria Gomes

It`s not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

- Alice Paul

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

- Allen Holmes

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.

- Alma Jones

What `jazz` means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term `jazz` has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

- Amanda Parks

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

- Amanda Weber

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.

- Amy Koenning

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.

- Amy Koenning

This is not a quickie, exploitation book attempting to capitalize on the worldwide publicity ultimately generated by Terri`s story, ... This is the powerful, insightful and definitive story, told by a dedicated and hard-working journalist who made it her business, after nearly three years of covering this life-and-death conflict, to bring it to the attention of the national and international media.

- Arthur Griffiths

All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa,

- Athan Manuel

We deeply regret Sen. Frist`s endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line and contravenes the sanctity of human life.

- David Stevens

Whoever says artists can`t deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.

- Martin Dansky