Apes Not Fallen Quotes by Robert Ardrey

More Quotes by Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
• Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
• The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We…
• There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers…
• There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
• Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender. We are…
• A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
• Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
• Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it…
• While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
• Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,…
• The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the…

See all 25 quotes by Robert Ardrey »