26 quotes
All governments - left, right or other - are by their very nature coercive. They have to be. A rule not ultimately backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
While its true that masculinity must be forced and fostered, this is also true of any human potentiality.
A More Complete Beast (2018)
Honor is a man's reputation for strength, courage and mastery within the context of an honor group comprised primarily of other men.
The Way of Men (2012)
If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
Flamboyant dishonor is not a failure of strength or courage. Men who are flamboyant dishonorable are flagrant in their disregard for the esteem of their male peers.
The Way of Men (2012)
Masculinity is about being a man within a group of men. Above all things, masculinity is about what men want from each other.
The Way of Men (2012)
To say that you care about one group of people more than others is a moral sin in the modern world. It is considered uncivilized- barbaric.
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
It wasn't so long ago that Europeans were able to put aside their similarities and fight each other to the death over matters of religion or national honor. The same has always been true of the peoples of Asia and Africa and Central America.
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
Before our age of conceit, the whole world was alive in a way. The task of man was to challenge and master the world, to dare and to fight against its untamed fury.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
Courage is an animating spirit of masculinity, and it is crucial to any meaningful definition of masculinity. Courage and strength are synergetic virtues. An overabundance of one is worth less without and adequate amount of the other.
The Way of Men (2012)
With no more frontiers to explore.... the modern, effeminate, bourgeois "First World" states can no longer produce new honor cultures.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
If you want to follow The Way of Men, if you want to advance a return to honor and manly virtue, if you want to steel yourself against an uncertain future—start a gang.
The Way of Men (2012)
Blood-brotherhood is one recurring cultural solution to the problem of recognizing powerful emotional bonds between men that avoids effeminizing comparisons to romantic courtship and affirms the masculinity of the men involved.
Blood-Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance (2009)
The goal of civilization seems to be to eliminate work and risk, but the world has changed more than we have. Our bodies crave work and sex, our minds crave risk and conflict.
The Way of Men (2012)
The basic honor code of the savage -bravery for men, chastity for women- is still recognizable beneath the surfaces of the popular culture that has done so much to efface it. If you doubt it, try calling a man a wimp or a woman a slut.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
George Orwell wrote in his "Notes on Nationalism" that, for the pacifist, the truth that, "Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others committing violence on their behalf," is obvious but impossible to accept.
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
If men are not supposed to tell women how women must behave, what right do women have to demand that men cater to their interest? Who are they to tell men that manhood means? Why should men accept their authority? What the Hell do women know about it what it means to be a man?
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)
Debate for the sake of debate is an intellectualized form of masculine competition in a world badly in need of visceral, direct masculinity... Explanations and apologies to outsiders are the issue of flaccid, failing and feminine cultures.
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
There's an old Greek proverb that says, "society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." If you don't like what's happening around you, what's happening to culture, what's happening to men and women, what people are becoming- get out there and start digging.
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
If there are females in your group, they will have plenty of hard and necessary work to do. Everyone will have to pull their own weight, but the hunting and fighting is almost always going to be up to the men. When lives are on the line, people will drop the etiquette of equality and make that decision again and again because it makes the most sense.
The Way of Men (2012)