Parasites 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
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims. — Thomas Sowell
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson
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
Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange… — Walter Benjamin
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
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
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. — George Bernard Shaw
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manquÃ©s â€” sucha horrible joke. I canâ€™t imagine a more… — Manny Farber
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do… — Paul Watson
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power… — Robert Anton Wilson
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

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