Quotes about parasite (16 Quotes)




    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 is the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.


    She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell. I am powerless. What can I do I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing.




    Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

    Until now we have not had a close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact. That surface is absolutely crucial in permitting the parasite to enter the cell. If we can determine its features in atomic detail, we may be able to find weak points that could make good targets for drugs.

    PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that 'Stone walls do not a prison make,' but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.



    If a man is after money, he's money mad if he keeps it, he's a capitalist if he spends it, he's a playboy if he doesn'tget it, he's a never-do-well if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it he's a parasite and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.



    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.



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