“While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.” KindChildrenLittlesWantedPoliticalJesusSocialChristChristianityDogMessagesWorkersDivinityOrthodoxBe KindSocial WorkerOld LadyOrthodox ChristianitySmall Dogs Author:N. T. Wright
“I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.” ThinkingUseSpeakSocialRoomsDogMedicineBlockApplesCheeseScenariosSauceAnalogies Author:Sloane Crosley
“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.” MenSocialProcessDogSpeciesSignificanceOrganismsFluidIntercourseAbsorbingCanine Book:An Olaf Stapledon Reader Source: An Olaf Stapledon Reader
“We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.” FirstsNextIndividualSocialDogCatFamiliarWheelsArrangementsSuperiorityHierarchyMeasuringCastesRankingRimsDespotsHub Book:The Tribe of Tiger Source: The Tribe of Tiger