{"quotes":[{"text":"Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.","author":"Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski","tags":["citizenship","democracy","government","parasite","politics","representation"],"id":56940,"author_id":"Jakub+Bo%C5%BCydar+Wi%C5%9Bniewski"},{"text":"There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.","author":"Paul Park","tags":["parasite","vampire"],"id":109804,"author_id":"Paul+Park"},{"text":"The talk of sin is of course to many a big turn-off; to others, an even bigger myth - because in reality, sin is like the spiritual equivalent of a microscopic parasite, or a virus, or better yet even, an infectious disease. And just as one might never know of, until visiting a competent doctor, the tiny pathogens progressively eroding one's body, so we might never know that in sin we are eroding our being and losing direction until hearing the Word of God rightfully applied. Therefore I ask, which of the doctors would then be the more competent: the one who finds the problem and gives the solution, or the one who willfully ignores the problem (or rather finds the problem when it is much too late)? Seldom does anyone write off the knowledge of medicine for the physical body as primitive practice, so neither must the knowledge of the Word of God for one's spiritual well-being remain written off as primitive practice - quite the opposite really. As it is written thus: 'Lean not on your own understanding.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bible","cure","destruction","disease","evil","god","good","holiness","holiness-of-god","knowledge","learning","medicine","myth","parasite","pathogen","preaching","reality","religion","salvation","self-destruction","sickness","sin","spirituality","teaching","theology","understanding","virus","wisdom","word-of-god"],"id":129183,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"You know how sometimes when you're drifting off to sleep you feel that jolt, like you were falling and caught yourself at the last second? It's nothing to be concerned about, it's usually just the parasite adjusting its grip.","author":"David Wong","tags":["david-wong","falling","never-sleep-again","parasite","sleep","spider-monsters"],"id":132611,"author_id":"David+Wong"},{"text":"Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you.","author":"O. S. Hickman","tags":["broken-heart","bum","deadbeat","dependent","divorce","freeloaders","get-over","leeches","love","moocher","parasite","sponge"],"id":171385,"author_id":"O.+S.+Hickman"},{"text":"Regret is like a mental parasite that alters your behavior.","author":"Peter Tieryas","tags":["behavior","mentality","parasite","regret"],"id":350103,"author_id":"Peter+Tieryas"},{"text":"Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["anticipate","anticipation","dependent","expecting","favour","increase","independence","michael-bassey-johnson","parasite","power","promise","self-made","unexpect","waiting"],"id":367096,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["agony","attitude","devil","dull","enemies","impecunious","indecision","lack","laziness","michael-bassey-johnson","parasite","postponement","poverty","procrastination","servitude","sorrows","suffering","unstable"],"id":380732,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Film does not replace language, for it cannot exist without it. Film displaces language, exposes the abyss that threatens to engulf every semantic signification. Film parasitizes language, much as the animal does, drawing into its imaginary panorama that which remains undisclosed in discursivity. Cinema is a parasite.","author":"Akira Mizuta Lippit","tags":["animals","cinema","film","language","parasite"],"id":415578,"author_id":"Akira+Mizuta+Lippit"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}