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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.
I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it renders certain, secure, and relatively 'peaceful' the lifeline of the parasitic caste in society.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Washington's parasitic approach to the private sector must change for there to be widespread, near-term and enduring prosperity and job creation.
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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.
We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.