Jack Donovan Quotes

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• Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good…
• Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,…
• Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them,…
• When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and…
• Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
• There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.
• When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just…
• Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded.…
• A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.
• Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence…
• Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a…
• A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more…
• As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection…
• Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

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