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We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

— James Cromwell

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

— Jon Katz

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

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

— Robert Fulghum

Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.

— T. E. Hulme

✗Opposing Perspectives

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

— Richard Branson

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

— Karl Marx