Everyone from Adam Smith, John Stewart Mill, they were all reforms. What they wanted to reform was getting rid of this parasitic landlord class that had conquered England in 1066 and it's the heirs of the military warlords who ended up taking the land and making everybody pay them and all of their descendants just for having been conquered. You can see the carry-over of this today. The rent that people have to pay, the money they have to pay the banks instead of having a public option. That's the price they still have to pay for being conquered.
Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.
The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.
The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.
Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?. . . But is it possible?. . . Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?
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.
I do know enough about economics - and so do you - to understand that the 'stimulus program' of Barack Obama and his ravenous parasitic hordes, supposedly designed to 'repair' America's broken economy, reveals him to be unimaginably stupid, gibberingly insane, or simply the biggest, most barefaced criminal thug ever to occupy the White House. And that's saying a lot.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease: 1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue. 2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture. 3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally. An early statement of Koch's postulates.
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.
