Quotes About Domestication

#1. I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [ ... ] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Kenneth Rexroth

#2. So just as Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions, so is the barbell a domestication, not the elimination, of uncertainty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. 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, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.

Jared Diamond

#4. Our brains, bodies, and behavior show many of the same signs of domestication that are found in our domestic animals: smaller teeth, smaller body, reduced aggression, and greater playfulness, carried on even into adulthood.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

Richard Dawkins

#7. Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

Jared Diamond

#8. Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

Carl Sagan

#9. Domestication is a variation of the process of evolution, where the selector has been not just natural forces but human ones, eventually intent on bringing dogs inside their homes.

Alexandra Horowitz

#10. Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner

#11. One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

Susan Sontag

#12. What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#13. Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

Norm Dicks

#14. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O'Donohue

#15. Their domestication which has taught them how imperfect they are.

Bruce Van Horn

#16. The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep
where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature
and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. THE DOMESTICATION OF HUNCH

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art ...

Allan Bloom

#19. Rewilders recognize that as long as empire exists, it will force people into domestication and prevent rewilding from taking place.

Urban Scout

#20. In this chapter I will focus on the evidence that humans are paedomorphic apes; in the next chapter I will consider the role of self-domestication in human social behavior. The German

Anonymous

#21. The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves, because we can never live up to our image of perfection.

Miguel Ruiz

#23. 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 no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

Isabella Beeton

#24. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.

Yuval Noah Harari

#25. Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.

Gregory Berns

#26. All our normal tendencies are lost in the process of domestication.

Anonymous

#27. How is domestication a violent process? A living thing's wildness is something potent: its strength lies in every cell of the body. Nothing was born to live in captivity, to be tamed, subdued and made submissive, and nothing accepts such a role without being forced.

Miles Olson

#28. the exclusion of wild males was extreme during horse domestication - to the point, in fact, that the genetic contribution of wild male horses was confined to perhaps only a few individuals at the outset.41

Anonymous

#29. I jumped and let out an embarrassing squeak when two hands came around my waist.
"Just me, luv," he said, close to my ear. "Aren't you the picture of domestication? Do you cook as well?

Wendy Higgins

#30. After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

Charles Darwin

#31. WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. One of the more interesting stories in pig evolution during domestication concerns the culture-specific nature of this artificial selection, most notably the black coloration characteristic of Chinese breeds.

Anonymous

#33. Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Gary Steiner

#35. Music and symbols, they're older than human race.
Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind.

Toba Beta

#36. The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

William Longgood