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Warren Farrell on Veterans Day

born 1943 United States

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6 quotes

Suicide now takes “more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined, stealing more than 36 million years of healthy life” around the world.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Many of the qualities your son develops to kill in war—or be a hero at work—undermine the qualities it takes to love at home.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Even if a soldier lives, the risks of war come home with the warrior—that for every soldier killed, about twenty-five veterans kill themselves.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work--and therefore as dads.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Warren Farrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.