Men Quote by Robert Ardrey Download Open image “For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.” — Robert Ardrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Reason Time Worst
Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry. — Lawrence Frank Copy Share Image
“Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the point of disbelief.… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Many have seen my worst times,actually I feel my best is always my worst because I'm always trying to better those times in the… — Manotti Street Copy Share Image
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life in the shelter of too many northern alliances. I have made alliance with the gentle cow, the health department, the local policeman. In the shelter of such alliances I have got out of bed in the morning with moderate assurance that I shall still be alive at bedtime. But south of the moon my allies… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
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. No creature who began as a mathematical improbability, who was selected through millions of years of unprecedented environmental hardship and change for ruggedness, ruthlessness, cunning, and adaptability, and who in the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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