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If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

— Kenneth Williams

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

— Jack Henry Abbott

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

— James Herriot

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

— Emile M. Cioran

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

— Plato

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

— Mary Astell

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

— Madison Smartt Bell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.

— Holly Valance