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

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

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

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

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.

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.

Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

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

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

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

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

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

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

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