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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.
Lice have been with us and evolving with us for as long as we have existed.
The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.
Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.
Worms are the intestines of the earth.
These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.
Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.
Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
...They eat everything alive. People, dogs, horses. Everything with flesh on it. So many of them crawling. Everywhere. Leaving the bones behind.
They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.
Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Snakes and bastards!
poachers and Methodies, of course. Oh,
Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was
Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.
porcine whipworm,
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
Nasty things, you know, gods, they don't much care for anyone other than themselves.
Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.
When an animal is infected, either naturally or by experimental injection, with a bacterium, virus, or other foreign body, the animal recognises this as an invader and acts in such a way as to remove or destroy it.
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.
A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.
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.
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
The animals had filled the tidy new freight cars with the lingering smell of their sweat and waste, parasites infesting the cracks between the hoof-dented boards, the feeling of imminent slaughter staying with the train forever. Soon
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God ...
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
If a beautiful sunflower is somehow supposed to be evidence of the Christian god, then what is a parasitic worm that eats children's eyeballs evidence of?
The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.
The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma's success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.
It's just my creepy science mind at work. I was thinking how bizarre it is that a parasite is growing in you and will eventually explode from your body through an extremely narrow opening, and yet you will both survive.
Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.
All the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
Toads, beetles, bats.
Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?
Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
These little black circular shapes were a result of him being a carrier of a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii
The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
We are a plague on the Earth.
Cancer ... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
People were like parasites burrowed into the smog.
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches." Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling.
Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.
Insects all business all the time.
Fetishes ... they're the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We'll feed your beast until it's tamed.
Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.
The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects ...
Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
The patient bird breakfasts on the
juiciest worm.
Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.
Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best. Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor.
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.
Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.
EXTERMINATE!!!!!!!!!!!!Exterminate-- Dalek
The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
They're disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies ...
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests
disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill.
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.
Who has more leisure than a worm?