Parasite Quotes
63 quotes by 58 authors
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when…
— Theodore Beale
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The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his…
— Malcolm X
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By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is…
— Matthieu Ricard
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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You're a parasite for sore eyes.
— Gregory Ratoff
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he…
— Vic Oliver
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a…
— Charles Nicolle
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I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings.…
— Sherrie Levine
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair,…
— William Banting
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In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]…
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys…
— PZ Myers
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
— Richard Preston
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Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
— Slavoj Žižek
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite.…
— Richard Bach
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Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only…
— C.S. Lewis
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