The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton
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. — Arnold J. Toynbee
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans. — Sigmund Freud
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. — Jean Burden
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. — King James I
Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. — Ingrid Newkirk
Every man is sociable until a cow invades his garden. — Irish Proverbs
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. — Samuel Butler
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. — Bertrand Russell
Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals. — Averroes
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott
The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons. — John Fugelsang
We need to narrow the digital divide, both among APEC member economies and domestically. — Joko Widodo
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. — Herbert Ward
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. — Hannah More
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. — Henry Ward Beecher
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. — Euripides
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. — Jean De La Bruyere
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Domesticated Woman Quotes
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake. — Nigella Lawson
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton
Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come. — Asha-Rose Migiro
One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman. — Tim McGraw
Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. — Salma Hayek
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord. — Pope Francis
The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati
But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable. — Terry Crews
The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection. — Rheta Childe Dorr
I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house. — Kathy Lette
Domestic Animals Quotes
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. — Jared Diamond
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending. — Hilda Solis
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. — Freeman Patterson
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding. — Wayne Pacelle
Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow. — Charles Clover
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. — Hector Hugh Munro
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. — Wayne Pacelle
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. — Laura Mennell
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human. — Albert Schweitzer
If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death. — Tim Burton
I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. — Paul Rudd
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a childrens author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. — Rachel Corrie
Having pets can teach us a lot of things. For kids, they are often their first lesson in responsibility, and being responsible for the well-being of another living thing is actually great for anyone, kid or adult. It teaches empathy, consistency, and so much more - especially if that pet is a dog. — Cesar Millan
When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator. — Benicio Del Toro
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. — Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Dog Quotes
The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be. — Konrad Lorenz
You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass. — Stone Cold Steve Austin
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. — John Calvin
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. — Harriet Tubman
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice. — Chuck Berry
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — Mark Twain
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. — Sri Aurobindo
Domestication Quotes
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things. — Queen Victoria
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. — J. G. Ballard
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. — Dave Pelzer
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. — James T. Walsh
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government. — Ban Ki-moon
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. — Nicole Kidman
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. — Joseph Sobran
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. — Jean Baudrillard
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. — Henry Charles Carey
Domesticated Animals Quotes
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
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. — E. G. Stakman
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. — Joseph Epstein
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. — Ayn Rand
In the same way humans have domesticated sheep and other animals by murdering the strong ones and breeding the docile, obedient ones, the powers-that-be have done the same with the masses. — Gary Yourofsky
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
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 — Keith Olbermann
I don't know if street art ever really works indoors. If you domesticate an animal, it goes from being wild and free to sterile, fat and sleepy. So maybe the art should stay outside. — Banksy
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted. — Charles Darwin
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
Domestic Life Quotes
The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them. — Samuel Smiles
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — William Penn
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. — Herman Kahn
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. — William Shakespeare
One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. — Julius Wellhausen
These fragments I have shored against my ruins — T. S. Eliot
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory. — Hans Christian Andersen
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done. — Boris Johnson
Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology. — Patricia J. Williams
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics. — Honore de Balzac
Domestic Policy Quotes
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy. — Spiro T. Agnew
The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims. — Maajid Nawaz
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive. — Robert Fisk
Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world. — Sister Souljah
The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys. — Julius Streicher
Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy. — Ron Paul
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. — John F. Kennedy
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none. — George Washington
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates. — Jamie Zawinski
Gross Domestic Product Quotes
World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. — Ban Ki-moon
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. — Martin Feldstein
The federal investment in finding cures for cancer - $3 billion annually [as of 1999] - is less than ... zero ... point ... zero ... zero ... zero ... four ... percent of our gross domestic product, or about one-seventh of what Americans spend on beauty products. — Michael Milken
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. — Barack Obama
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product. — Nicholas Stern
The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median household income went down. — Mark Shields
GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play — Robert Kennedy
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. — Randy Neugebauer
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. — Kim Stanley Robinson
Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck — John Robbins
In Africa, there were few plants willing to be domesticated, and even fewer animals. Much of the land consists of jungle, swamp, desert, or steep-sided plateau, none of which lend themselves to the growing of wheat or rice, or sustaining herds of sheep. Africa's rhinos, gazelles, and giraffes stubbornly refused to be beasts of burden. — Tim Marshall
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression. — James Madison
The police is using decaying equipment. The military, which has also been on the front lines in combating domestic terrorism, has been doing so with outdated and insufficient equipment. — Nayib Bukele
We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go. — Kate Thornton
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure. — Ron Paul
We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence — Charles Clarke
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. — Gouverneur Morris
Abused in this way, law becomes a tool – both domestically and internationally – by which the powerful can coerce and control the powerless, rather than a system for ensuring that all are subjected to common rules. Nowhere. — Glenn Greenwald
There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up. — Smriti Mandhana
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! — Euripides
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great. — Ryan Zinke
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business. — Theodore Roosevelt
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony — Judith Butler
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men. — Henry Fielding
As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. # PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence. — Rosario Dawson
I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament. — Daniel O'Connell
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler
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