Parasites Quotes - Page 7

• 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 pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Self, Religion

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• Will our Philosophy to later Life
  Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth,
  Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

  Julian Huxley

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Prayer, Mean

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Character, Climate, Anomalies

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.51, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• 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 neighbor.

  W. H. Auden

  Life, Art, Beer

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Baby, Children, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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