Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. - Robert Ardrey
A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.
- 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
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…
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
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…
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable. - Robert Ardrey
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. - Robert Ardrey
Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions. - Robert Ardrey
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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.
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