Exploit Quotes

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes)
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. View quote
Frank Wedekind
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. View quote
Kate Millett
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known. View quote
Evan Parker
The purpose of organizations is to exploit the fact that many (virtually all) decisions require the participation of many individuals for their effectiveness. View quote
Kenneth Arrow
[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
The most evil creatures don't desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves. View quote
Orson Scott Card
There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization. View quote
Lev Artsimovich
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based. View quote
C. Wright Mills
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act. (Yitzhak Rabin)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them-that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. View quote
H. G. Wells
I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen. View quote
Ben Bova
In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right. View quote
John Mearsheimer
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent. View quote
Karl Marx
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. View quote
Ronald Reagan
She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it. (Meg Wolitzer)
One would almost think that they [straight white males] felt empowered to take anything the society produced, no matter how marginal, and utilize it for their own ends - dare we say "exploit it"? - certainly to take advantage of it as long as it's around. And could this possibly be an effect of discourse? Perhaps it might even be one we on the margins might reasonably appropriate to our profit... or perhaps some of us already have. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.' View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas. View quote
Anna Lindh
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. View quote
Blake Edwards