Top 17 Parasites Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Parasites Quotes from famous people such as Mike Oldfield, Gore Vidal, Tom Shales, James Carville, William Shenstone, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The biggest problems were to do with… well, to get that successful when you’re so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.
Mike Oldfield
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
Gore Vidal
‘American Idol’ is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element – folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS’s ‘Survivor’ and other shows that imitate it, the ‘American Idol’ contestants, of course, sing.
Tom Shales
As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.
James Carville
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man’s hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone
Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
Ellen Key
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph Chaplin
We do not want to go to the U.K. and take something from them. We do not want to be parasites. We want to work there, and I think that Hungarians are working well.
Viktor Orban
Remember that physical beauty is evolution’s way of assuring us that the other person doesn’t have too many intestinal parasites.
Ben Bernanke
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
J. B. Priestley
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
Anthony Fauci
I’ll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.
Robert T. Bakker
We didn’t have running water. We had to get water from wells, and there was a stint where I lived with my grandma where we had to get water, bring it over to the house. You had to boil the water because you never knew what parasites were in the water.
Kamaru Usman
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are ‘duplicate me’ instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Richard Dawkins
Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
Debbie Ford
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito… She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite – what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
Ronald Ross
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel