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Men Quotes by Robert Ardrey
- 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…
- 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…
- Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
- 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…
- Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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