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“Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)”

Humans Political Animal Dog Essentials Property Stranger Owners Good Man Smarter Cousin Continuity Theorists

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.”

Mind Children Book Sex Parent Animal Fire Sentences Curse Owners Sunday Kindles Negligence Death Sentence Oxen

Book:White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.”

Want Joy Sleep Animal Dog Personality Drink Pure Chairs Owners Wet Bowls Toilets Bark Extending Tamed Leashes

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.”

Believe Wells I Believe Animal Tough I Believe In Pet Owners Tough Love

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis