- Nov 07, 2020
Being Used Quotes
When something meant for good gets twisted.
This collection explores how ideas, art, and even people can be turned into tools for someone else's purpose, from films tackling injustice abroad to reflections on how nature itself gets exploited. See our Exploitation quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I witness innovative technologies being used to not only address social challenges but to build stronger communities - here in the U.S. and across the globe.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media being used to discover new artists is great. There's not a barrier to enter the industry. People can just post music and share it. And if it's good enough, and people like it, it will grow.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more agricultural land is being used for non-agricultural purposes. Whether it's any industry, express highway, or expansion of any city, agricultural land is being used.
- Assembly Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that's trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
- Embryonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to do sound design, and in movies, you have more leeway with that, but I don't really notice that sound design is being used in TV other than just location sound.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020