Parasites Quotes - Page 2

• You're a parasite for sore eyes.

  Gregory Ratoff

  Sarcastic, Eye, Sore Eyes

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• High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

  Linda McQuaig

  Class, Focus, Finance

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Palaces

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Receiving, Thieves, Labor

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.98, Cosimo Classics

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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 human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Eye, Elderly

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• Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Giving Up, Cancer

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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, comfortable progress in the path of life.

  William Banting

  Evil, Progress, Ships

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Grandchildren, Thinking

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• The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Dog, Degenerates, Mama

  Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Believe, Race, World

  Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

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• But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

  Haruki Murakami

  Imagination, Mind, Want

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.

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• Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, Criminals, Experts

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• There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

  Samora Machel

  People

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Tree, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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• There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

  Alex Jones

  People, Genius, Commodity

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  Joseph Priestley

  Writing, Critics, Greater

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• People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

  Patrice Evra

  Lying, People, France

  "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.

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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 share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

  Malcolm X

  Simple, Men, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.321, Ballantine Books

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• Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Peculiar, Disease, Bacteria

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

  Sean Wilentz

  Poverty, Caught, Worthy

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• Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Animal, Numbers

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  Thomas Sowell

  Struggle, Rights, Media

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• The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Live For Others, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin

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• The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

  Ronald Ross

  What If, Mosquitoes, Growing

  Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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• We’re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so we’re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and we’re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? We’re already overpopulated. I feel we’ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, we’ll just keep devouring the planet, and I don’t think it’s going to stand for that very long.

  Morgan Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Animal

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