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“Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O”

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“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”

“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”

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Author:Freeman Patterson

“Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.”

World Needs Humans Animal Dog Cat Vulnerable Dependent Unnatural Animal World Cat And Dog Domesticated Animals

Author:Gary L. Francione

“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 or Catalonia, Spain, or Katmandu, or wherever the hell your hairy ass is from! 'Cause this is America and around here - Katmandon't.”

Knows Country America Causes Animal Hell Beats Cat Ass Islands Spain Indigenous Catalonia Domesticated Animals

Author:Arj Barker

“Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.”

Firsts Made Animal Technology Disease Tools Starting Made It Wheels Domesticated Animals

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.”

“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“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.”

Has Beens Animal Environment Plant Population Cynical Rabbits Breeding Plants And Animals Overpopulation World Population Reproductive Health Environmental Stewardship Domesticated Animals

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“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 in law.”

Important Law Animal Rights Granted In-laws Right To Life Domesticated Animals

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“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 were our most reliable mode of transportation.”

Years Humans Important Animal Horse Transportation Domesticated Animals

Author:Elton Gallegly

“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 begin with.”

World Literature Animal Land Mass Species Domesticated Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“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.”

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Author:Jared Diamond

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.”

Men Animal Dog Domesticated Animals

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.”

Literature Animal Plant West Valuable Native Tropical Ethiopia West Africa Domesticated Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.”

Humans Animal Disease Species Acquire Native Pigs Cattle Camels Smallpox Measles Influenza Domesticated Animals

Author:Jared Diamond

“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.”

Years Humans Has Beens Literature Animal Results Effort Modern Years Ago Species Valuable Despite Fulfilling Criteria Modern Science Mammals Domesticated Animals

Author:Jared Diamond