All Robert Ardrey Quotes
- We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. Action
- Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. Aggressiveness
- 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… Achieved
- 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… Discovers
- There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone. Acts
- Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are not so unique… Afterthought
- A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. Bird
- Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. Antique
- Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. Care
- While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable. Impossible
- Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire… Cellars
- 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. Acts
- Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity. Charity
- What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior. Behavior
- Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear. Animal
- Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners. Animal
- Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. Assurance
- Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to… African
- 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… Alert
- Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or… All
- 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… Animal
- But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our… Accomplished
- 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… Angel
- A human being is a problem in search of a solution. Human
- 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… Achieved