Parasites Quotes

• Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

  Michael Bassey

  Lazy, Needs, Poverty

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• Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

  Warsan Shire

  Law Of Attraction, Light, Space

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• The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Giving, Leader

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.461, Penguin

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• Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

  Bernard Beckett

  Host

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Fortune, Misfortunes

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• All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Apples, Evil, Rotten

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• 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

  Real, Tolerance, Limits

  Linda Howard (2012). “Shades Of Twilight”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

  Ayn Rand

  I Love You, Spiritual, Independent

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• But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.

  Daniel Suarez

  Taken, Successful, Simple

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.426, Penguin

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• People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

  Jason Read

  Successful, Class, People

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• You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Use, Born, Persons

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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• No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

  Thomas Sowell

  Class, Growing, Politics

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.210, Basic Books

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• The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, Secret, Littles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.196, Penguin

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• Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Creating, Feeding, Speculation

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.125, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Live loath'd and long,
  Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
  Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
  You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
  Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Time Flies, Knees

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

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• A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Self, Parent

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• A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Lawyer, Social, Underprivileged

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• Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  "The Virtue of Selfishness".

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• There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

  Thomas Sowell

  Liberty, Talent, Victim

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• Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some of which are called retrotransposons. Many of the parasitic stretches were originally viruses that entered our DNA. Most of them don't do us any harm. They just copy and insert themselves in other parts of our DNA, basically replicating themselves. Sometimes they hop into other species and replicate themselves in a new host. According to one estimate, roughly one-third to one-half of all human DNA is basically parasitic.

  Carl Zimmer

  Successful, Dna, Half

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• Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

  Josh Billings

  Jealousy

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• Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  Kinky Friedman

  Mean, Tick

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.88, Macmillan

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• The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

  Richard Preston

  Earth, Infection, Attempting

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• Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

  Henry Taylor

  Fall, Character, Men

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.27

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