Preying on Vulnerability Quotes

Lotteries are a tax on the poor.

Utilizing fear to rip people off during a crisis is abhorrent, dishonest and downright disgusting behavior.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.

Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

I just hate television that's out to make people cry because other people like to see people cry.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

The consultant is selling something to the candidate. The confidence game is that the candidate is always a little afraid. They’re always a little scared they can lose, and that’s what the consultant exploits. In the words of a consultant, ”There’s nothing better than a scared, rich candidate.”

To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

The Tory party are chiefly made up of the very rich, operating on the fears or the interests, or the ignorance of the poor.

Gawker was a site built to destroy lives. Its mission was to discover the worst moment in a person's life - and then publicize it for profit.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.