Domesticating Quotes

#1. Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.

John Eldredge

#2. We need to keep domesticating religion. It's such an unpredictable beast.

James K. Morrow

#3. P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Paulo Freire

#4. Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

Jared Diamond

#5. Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Aldous Huxley

#6. It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing ... Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia.

Dean Koontz

#7. There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

Hari Kunzru

#8. I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

Frederick Lenz

#9. People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Paul Rand

#11. I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

Jennifer Hotes

#12. Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar."
"There must not have been a very strict building code ...

Charles M. Schulz

#13. Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

L. Neil Smith

#14. felt his nose carefully all the way up... "I thought it was gone," said Toby, trotting off again. "It's alright however. I am sure I couldn't blame it if it was to go.

Charles Dickens

#15. I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

Jane Kaczmarek

#16. Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

Joel Salatin

#17. You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

Kim Dong Hwa