Parasites...

 "But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?" - William Butler Yeats

Waste for Show...

 "In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of competition and wastefulness the sole criterion of power..." -- Upton Sinclair

You All Suck (Example #31a - 2020 Election Edition, The democrats)

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore walking backwards in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of Man operates." -- H.L. Mencken