Civilization Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The craft, trade, agriculture, science, a large part of the art - all this can only stand on a broad base , on a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The…

— Doug Casey

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,…

— Nicole Brossard

If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where…

— Jack Handey

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed,…

— Sean Wilentz

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