Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most…

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

— Antonio Porchia

“He was watching me, and he chuckled. "Do you know how a man tames a wolf?" he asked me. "No," I said. "You get…

— Delilah S. Dawson

“He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.

— David Beard

“The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.”

— Yanko Tsvetkov

“Cora Thompson had two of them--cats, that is. Which was quite remarkable considering she had never owned a pet before. Growing up in the…

— Barbara Casey

“Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,’ said Ram.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to Catalina Island…

— Arj Barker

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives…

— Gary L. Francione

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“The availability of domesticated animal species played an important role in the prohibition of cannibalism and the development of religions of love and mercy…

— Marvin Harris

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species…

— Jared Diamond

We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive -…

— Elizabeth Kolbert