Parasitism Quotes

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

No man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him.

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I'm sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means --- except by getting off his back.

Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

The Jew is a mere huckster; a trader who doesn't want to produce, but to make something out of what someone else produces.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

All writers are vampires.

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

I knew Paris was using me, but I also didn't care; I was using her, too. I mean, I was a blogger who was hanging out with Paris Hilton.

The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.