14 Parasite Quotes for You to Enjoy

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. Khalil Gibran

You First Country Politician Oasis Parasite Then Asking Your Desert Zealous Second

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence

Death Creation Down Every Tree Alive Destroys Would City Abolish Parasite Rise Horror Throws Mere Ideal Until Another Existence Up Itself Accumulate Goes Mankind Rear Multiply Swollen Million Save

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. Jordan Peterson

Me You Ideology Believe Think Everything Corrupt Religious Parasite Structures Mystery Terrible None Left Certainty Utility Things Associated

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

Thought Compliant Parasite Host Like Without Exist Any Cannot

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!' Adam Davidson

Money Lover Nothing Alexander Thomas Complaints Thomas Jefferson Back Chaos Hating Stayed Parasite About Dates Days Dry Does Tradition Hamilton Wall Wall Street American Same Cursed Centuries Creates American Tradition Jefferson Sucks Even Largely Street Hardworking

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. Arthur Schopenhauer

Kind Parasite Were Brain May Dwells Regarded Body Organism Who

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction. Boris Johnson

Life Time Good Great You Writing World Good Time Sense Good Life Possible TV Pretty Parasite Pretty Good About Having Having A Good Time Studio Great Sense Pieces End Personal Being In The End Media Inconsequential Career Dissatisfaction

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time. Boris Johnson

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. Daniel Suarez

Nature Book Will Inevitable Out Parasite Attacked Take Leading Leaf Itself Any Crash Population Eventually Species Need

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. Felix Dennis

Failure You Cause Mind Will Single Before Other Startups Additional Those Alive Member Out Imminent Constantly Mutiny Eat Parasite Wrecked Cash More Never Employ Until Employing Overhead Than Any Staff Hold Bar Viewed Even Monitor Flow

When a parasite moves to a new habitat, it can find new hosts through a process called the trans-species jump. Often, the new host has no resistance; it and the parasite haven't had time to adjust to each other through natural selection (it is frequently not in the best interest of a parasite to kill its host quickly). Richard Preston

Time Best Natural Habitat Other Adjust Find Parasite Through Selection Host Had Hosts New Frequently Jump Quickly Often Moves Process Interest Natural Selection Each Resistance

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. Bill Gates

Strength World Impossible Has-Been Thousands Thousands Of Years Parasite Tens Tens Of Thousands Calculate Malaria Been Years Done Children Whole Harm

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