Politics, n: Poly many + tics blood-sucking parasites.

“So you believe in blood sucking fangers, but you don't believe in the existence of werewolves. What kind of narrow minded crap is that?”

— J.L. McCoy

I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as a gay…

— Denis O'Hare

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

— Cal Thomas

“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and…

— APORVAKALA

“One should let one’s fingernails grow for a fortnight. Oh! how sweet to snatch brutally from his bed a boy who has as yet…

— Comte de Lautréamont

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who…

— Charles Hamilton Houston

Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.

— Ken Bates

Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to…

— Andrew Ryan

“Lankester’s mistake didn’t stem simply from a loathing for all parasites;”

— Anonymous

I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a…

— Manny Farber

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to…

— Daniel Suarez

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and…

— Ayn Rand

The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a…

— Ian Shoales

I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.

— Linda Howard