"The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps……" — 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 to our sucessor beings."
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Robert Ardrey
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
Robert Ardrey has 25 quotes on this site.
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know,…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
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A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We…
— Abu Abbas
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
— David Baldacci
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Barton
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved…
— Victoria Beckham
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
— Usain Bolt
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