Parasitic Quotes

• Harry S. Truman / 33rd U.S. President

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

• William S. Burroughs / Novelist

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

• Mark Pellegrino / Actor

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

• Elaine Chao / Former United States Secretary Of Labor

Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.

• Elijah Wood / Actor

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

• Bob Corker / United States Senator

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

• Bruce Sterling / Author

I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

• Charles Darwin / Naturalist

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

• Murray Rothbard / Economist

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.

• Mikhail Bakunin

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

• Nargis Fakhri

I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

• Mark Fisher

Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.

• Charlie Pierce

It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.

• Murray Rothbard / Economist

If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.