Top 40 Ardrey Quotes
#2. Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.
Robert Ardrey
#3. 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.
Robert Ardrey
#4. He's blind, and nearly deaf in the bargain," Mrs. Martello said proudly. "And he's going in surgery just as soon as they get him all fixed up for it. He's got a malignancy.
Eudora Welty
#5. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Maximillian Degenerez
#6. There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
Robert Ardrey
#7. 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 sense today?
Robert Ardrey
#8. We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
Robert Ardrey
#9. Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
Robert Ardrey
#10. A human being is a problem in search of a solution.
Robert Ardrey
#11. A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
Robert Ardrey
#12. I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.
Steve Yzerman
#13. Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
Robert Ardrey
#14. I think folks need to understand the whole background of Donald Trump. I find from time to time, I talk to people about the campaign and they say, gosh, I didn't know that Donald Trump gave a bunch of money to Jimmy Carter and to Hillary Clinton and to Harry Reid and to John Kerry.
Mitt Romney
#15. I like to be the one in charge of everything.
Amy Sedaris
#16. 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 us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.
Robert Ardrey
#17. STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.
Robert Ardrey
#18. 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 built.
Robert Ardrey
#19. This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
Charles Barkley
#21. Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
Robert Ardrey
#22. 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
#24. ...the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.
Sue Halpern
#25. Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.
Robert Ardrey
#26. 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
#27. While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
Robert Ardrey
#28. Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
Robert Ardrey
#29. Tell me why ... I don't like Mondays ...
Bob Geldof
#30. Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.
Robert Ardrey
#31. What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.
Robert Ardrey
#32. Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.
Robert Ardrey
#33. 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.
Robert Ardrey
#34. There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.
Robert Ardrey
#35. Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
Robert Ardrey
#36. What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.
Robert Ardrey
#37. An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire
#38. Man beset by anarchy, banditry, chaos and extinction must at last resort turn to that chamber of horrors, human enlightenment. For he has nowhere else to turn.
Robert Ardrey
#39. There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
Joseph Campbell
#40. The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?
Ann Burton
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