“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.”

“A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.”

“With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.”

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”

“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".”

“No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”