"Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha……" — Jack Donovan
"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, no 'higher' virtues can be entertained. You need to be alive to philosophize. You can add to these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them from the equation altogether you aren't just leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization possible."
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Jack Donovan
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15 Quotes by Jack Donovan
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Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has…
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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes…
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the…
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Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men…
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There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.
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When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man.…
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Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility…
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White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy…
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A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a…
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Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because…
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Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow…
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A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at…
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More Abandoning Quotes
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
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