Quotes by Robert Ardrey

About Robert Ardrey:

Robert Ardrey was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter and science writer. After a long Broadway and Hollywood career he returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s.
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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

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

Robert Ardrey

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

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

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 symp...

Robert Ardrey

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Ardrey
  • DescriptionScreenwriter and author of several books on anthropology
  • BornOctober 16, 1908
  • DiedJanuary 14, 1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Anthropologist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship