“ 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, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilizati… Jack Donovan
“ 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 a thing to be—it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood me… Jack Donovan
“ 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 admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in a… Jack Donovan
“ The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes. Jack Donovan
“ If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity. Jack Donovan
“ No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male. Jack Donovan
