Quotes by Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

Bird

Doe

Wings

A human being is a problem in search of a solution.

Humans

Problem

Solutions

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

Aggressiveness

Principal

Survival

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

Animal

Communication

Expression

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 murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. 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.

Angel

Dream

Stars

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Charity

Classic

Cowardice

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

Dream

War

Wish

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Antiques

Men

Weapons

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

Men

Reason

Worst

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Peace

Successful

War

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Discovery

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Dog

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Drug

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Father

Fear

Fence

Hate

Home

Humans

Hunters

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Impossible

Killers

Lakes

Long

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Masters

May

Men

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Parades

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Quotes by Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

A human being is a problem in search of a solution.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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