Parasite Quotes

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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
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
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
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
You're a parasite for sore eyes. — Gregory Ratoff
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
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
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
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
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite. — Malcolm Gladwell
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
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
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society. — Charles Hamilton Houston
A lawyerâ€™s either a social engineer or â€¦ a parasite on society â€¦ A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]… — Charles Hamilton Houston
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
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. Itâ€™s the poison that destroys… — PZ Myers
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. — Richard Preston
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
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
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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