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

- Robert Ardrey

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

- Robert Ardrey

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…

- Robert Ardrey

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

- Robert Ardrey

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

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should lik…

- Robert Ardrey

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

- Robert Ardrey

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

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 t…

- Robert Ardrey