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parasite
«The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.»
«The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Brain may, organism, organisms, parasite, regarded, The Brain
«but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Garden of, instructor, instructors, parasite, sweets
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, accumulation, accumulations, city, Creation, Death itself, destroys, horror, ideal, mere, million, multiply, One In A Million, parasite, rear, rearing, rears, swelled, swell up, swollen, throws
«The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cowardly, dependence, entail, entailed, entailing, indecent, invalid, invalids, parasite, physicians, right to life, The Meaning of Life, vegetate, vegetated, vegetates, vegetating
«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; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
desert, oases, oasis, parasite, politician, zealous
«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.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, destroyer, handed, healer, healers, helper, hundred thousand, parasite, rescued, steward, stewards, withdrew