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Robert Ardrey Quotes: "We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels."

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival."

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.




Robert Ardrey Quotes: "We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?"

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space."

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.




Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe."

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either."

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses."

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.




Robert Ardrey Quotes: "A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies."

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions."

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built."

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable."

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea."

If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.




Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance."

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man."

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior."

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone."

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners."

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst."

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "A human being is a problem in search of a solution."

A human being is a problem in search of a solution.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings."

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our sucessor beings.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity."

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?"

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions."

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.



Robert Ardrey Quotes: "What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species."

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.