"What could not be denied was that in……" — Robert Ardrey
"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 competition for females but by competition for space."
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Robert Ardrey
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
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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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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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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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