Domesticated Quotes
58 quotes by 51 authors
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas…
— Karen Armstrong
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited…
— Brandon Boyd
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
— Ben Whishaw
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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
— Antonio Porchia
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
— Richard Leakey
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but…
— Isabella Beeton
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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 ourselves.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,…
— Clarice Lispector
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in…
— Plutarch
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The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
— Victor LaValle
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right…
— J M Coetzee
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,…
— Judith Butler
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It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses…
— Elton Gallegly
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
— Cornel West
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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 to…
— Jared Diamond
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Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,…
— Jared Diamond
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Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a…
— Julia Cameron
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GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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