Atavistic Quotes

(on why he accepted the role on "Green Acres" (1965)) Everyone gets tired of the rat race. Everyone would like to chuck it all and grow some carrots. It`s basic. Sign me. I knew it would be successful. Had to be. It`s about the atavistic urge, and people have been getting a charge out of that ever since Aristophanes wrote about the plebes and the city folk.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

I don`t think that what`s going on in Bosnia is political activity. It`s partly political, but it`s partly atavistic as well.

Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will