Quotes About Parasitism

#1. What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.

Robert Charles Wilson

#2. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

Larry Wall

#3. [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.

Max Nordau

#4. The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it - anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys' gossip.

Boris Akunin

#5. [Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Emma Goldman

#6. I have learned the password of two of my neighbors' wireless home networks, so you can use theirs if you like. Be a parasite on their network. Global digital parasitism is the new Trotskyism. Connect to anywhere in the world you like.

David Cronenberg

#7. The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

William Ralph Inge

#8. Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.

Samuel Roth

#9. If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

Ayn Rand

#10. No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. 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

#12. There are considered to be three symbiotic relationships in nature: parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism.

George Walker

#13. Global digital parasitism is the new Trotskyism.

David Cronenberg

#14. Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

Rahm Emanuel

#15. It was a hot sticky night in Barcelona and all the good whores had the summer flu.

Dan Jenkins

#16. I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

Missy Elliot

#17. There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#18. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Ayn Rand

#19. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Change starts with awareness.

Chris Prentiss

#21. Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

Judy Blume

#22. Politicians know that if they fail to engage with the gay community, and fail to develop coherent positions on the issues that concern them, they risk punishment at the ballot box. If we can do that for science, we will have made an outstanding start.

Mark Henderson

#23. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. Prov 18:2

Peter W. Gosnell

#24. He wanted to give me a blade? What's wrong with that?"
"Blades," he whispered, "and sheaths go together. And your sheath will only ever hold my blade.

Nalini Singh

#25. My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.

Auberon Herbert

#27. We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Henri Frederic Amiel