Domesticate Quotes

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey. (Orson Scott Card)
By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre. View quote
Clive Barker
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. View quote
Abu Bakar Bashir
Logically, humanity itself will also become a domesticate of this order as the world of production processes us as much as it degrades and deforms every other natural system. View quote
John Zerzan
Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution. View quote
David Christian
We rebel against the impossible. I sense a wish in some professional religion-mongers to make God possible, to make him comprehensible to the naked intellect, domesticate him so that he's easy to believe in. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Women are supposed to domesticate men. List the countries where they treat women like dirt, and then list the crude, warlike, and brutal countries. Same list, yes? View quote
John C. Wright
The wreck of the Titanic functions as a sublime object: a positive, material object elevated to the status of the impossible Thing. And perhaps all the effort to articulate the metaphysical meaning of the Titanic is nothing but an attempt to escape this terrifying impact of the Thing, an attempt to domesticate the Ting by reducing it to its symbolic status, by providing it with a meaning. We usually say that the fascinating presence of a Thing obscures its meaning; here, the opposite is true: the meaning obscures the terrifying impact of its presence. View quote
Slavoj Žižek
In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her. View quote
Rachel Cusk
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. View quote
John W. Gardner