| He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. |
| There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting. |
| The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. |
| I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him – rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him. |
| Rabbi Zusya once said that when he died, he wasn’t worried that God would ask him “Why weren’t you Moses?” or “Why weren’t you Solomon?” But he did worry that God might ask “Why weren’t you Rabbi Zusya? |
| Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. |
| Love is based on adoration, adoration is a concentrated amount of respect. Respect is derived from power. Be powerful if you want to be loved, or you will never be loved. You will be held in contempt for being weak. |
| Women do not care about male weakness and neither does society. If you are weak, depressed, small, poor, uneducated, unconfident, not powerful then nobody cares. People only care about you when you’re powerful or a pretty woman. You have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps because nobody gives a fuck about you. |
| A man has learnt to repress his fear so he may overcome and achieve. |
| As a man, most people won’t help you for being weak, they don’t sympathize with your weakness, they laugh at you and say “how you could ever let yourself get like that.” As a man, they laugh at you and they enjoy ridiculing your weakness as it makes them feel powerful to know that they’re not at the bottom of the food chain. They indulge in the antithesis between your weakness and their power because it feels good and it reassures their own insecurities. Your weakness is a reminder for other men what not to be, or to allow themselves to become. What not to be is the only useful function that weak men serve to others. Do not be weak. |
| You are disposable. Society doesn’t care about you. CARE ABOUT YOURSELF FIRST. ALWAYS. Because outside of your mother, nobody else will. |
| You do not earn respect by respecting others. You earn respect by respecting you. It’s counter intuitive. By being a selfish ass who puts himself first and does what he wants, even at the expense of others sometimes, the whole world bends at the knee and chases after you, trying to win your validation. Everyone else is so fucking polite and respectful by default, while you’re busy respecting yourself instead. That rubs everyone funny, not just women. That makes people try harder around you. |
| Just realize you don’t matter to them. You can go out to the street dressed up in a clown suit with your balls hanging out while talking to yourself loudly in Chinese. When people will see you you will be on their mind for 15 seconds tops before they will forget you, and start thinking again about the only thing that truly matters to them – their own fucking life. You forget a 1000 things every day maybe even more. Everyone is self righteous but it’s hard to get that ideology in your head and keep it. |
| Sensing that men are pacing their concrete cages, the reimaginers of masculinity have attempted to redecorate man’s pound with questing narratives and talk of wildness. But a spiritual journey is just a story about thinking. You don’t actually go anywhere. The inner warrior never knows what it means to face death head on, or to see the life leave the eyes of his vanquished foe. His victories are petty and his defeats are trivial. The weekend initiate to manhood never feels the earth on his knees, the urgency of hunger or the warmth of fresh blood on his forehead. And the man who denies his own will to power so that others may thrive makes himself a slave. Without the real world rationales for strength, courage and honor, man is left with a bunch of melodramatic metaphors for a mundane reality. |
| A man who is “vulnerable” is a weak link. He’s shown that he is going to break under pressure, or that he is prone to manipulation. Tactically, this is a problem for the group, and as a result he is going to lose status within the group. Men who appear to be unflappable, however, make the group look watertight. It makes perfect sense for men to want to ally themselves with strong men who can pull their weight, and who don’t dishonor the group. From a primal perspective, dishonor is danger. It should be obvious why a group of men competing with other groups of men for survival would want to appear to be strong, courageous and competent. |
| Avoiding “sissy stuff” is not merely about a desire to differentiate oneself from one’s mother and find a separate identity among men-although it is certainly that, too. “No Sissy Stuff” is an admonition to young men that routes them away from apparently submissive behaviors and influences and interests that could handicap them-and could make them appear vulnerable-as they compete and socialize with other men. If you’re theoretically trying to be selected by a woman, as a man, why would you want to run the risk of being mistaken for a woman, instead of trying to prove that you’re among the best men? Why wouldn’t you advertise yourself as an exemplary man? |
| The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology. |
| Is our contemporary arrangement better? If so, for whom? Cui bona? Is it permanent? Will things always be so? Will men never need to be strong or courageous again? If we abandon the manly virtues that have characterized the male sex role for all of human history, who will volunteer to risk his life to protect us from the men who have not abandoned those virtues? While it is human nature for men, or at least a portion of them, to desire conflict and risk, will they take those risks if they are despised for it-if all we offer them is a paycheck? Do men watch television shows about the few men left who do dangerous and dirty jobs out of mere curiosity, or because they secretly hate their own weakness and their child-proofed, predictable lives, and fantasize about doing something where their actions have meaningful and immediate consequences? |
| Dominance means being the one in charge. It also means being the one with all the responsibility, the one who has to bear the weight of their problems alone, that those under them might be free of such a burden. |
| Low value is, for better or worse, DISGUSTING to people. We feel the revulsion from a socially inept act. |
| Your job is to be a man that raises others up. That raises the value of everyone in the room just by being there. To be the man that every woman wants to fuck and every man wants to be. |
| Being nice is a cancerous growth at the core of your interactions with men and women. |
| Be selfish: Nobody respects a man who doesn’t respect himself. You respect yourself by putting yourself first. By knowing what you want and taking steps to acquire it. By being forward and honest and outright saying what you want. By doing what you want. By not compromising on what you want. |
| If you become angry, defensive, hurt, etc., then the message you’ve sent to a woman or man is: “You are more powerful than I am. You have the power to affect my emotional state. I don’t decide how I feel. You do. I don’t take charge of my life. I just react to shit. I am an unworthy and weak male specimen. Please refrain from having sex with me and find yourself a real man.” In fact, if you address the issue at all, you’re saying: “You control what is and is not important in our lives. You set my priorities just by talking. You’re my boss.” |
| If you want to know why society seems to shun you, or why you seem to get no respect, it’s because society is full of people who need things. They need houses built, they need food to eat, they need entertainment, they need fulfilling sexual relationships. The moment you came into the world, you became part of a system designed purely to see to people’s needs. Either you will go about the task of seeing to those needs by learning a unique set of skills, or the world will reject you, no matter how kind, giving, and polite you are. You will be poor, you will be alone, you will be left out in the cold. Nobody cares about your dirt. “Who you are inside” is meaningless aside from what it produces for other people. |
| Don’t ever put your palm facing up when challenged by anyone. It’s a classic submissive gesture. |
| Take up space, own the space, claim other people’s space. |
| “Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women? Well, for one thing, they had damn well better be. The chief task in life that a man has to perform is that of impressing the opposite sex, and Mother Nature (as we laughingly call her) is not so kind to men. In fact, she equips many fellows with very little armament for the struggle. An average man has just one, outside chance: he had better be able to make the lady laugh. Making them laugh has been one of the crucial preoccupations of my life. If you can stimulate her to laughter- I am talking about that real, out-loud, head-back, mouth-open-to-expose-the-full-horseshoe-of-lovely-teeth, involuntary, full, and deep-throated mirth; the kind that is accompanied by a shocked surprise and a slight (no, make that a loud) peal of delight-well, then, you have at least caused her to loosen up and to change her expression. I shall not elaborate further.” -Christopher Hitchens |
| People will follow a man on the strength of his conviction irrespective of the validity of his argument. Confidently conveyed rhetoric is persuasive irrespective of its truthfulness, whilst the same cannot be said of a cogent albeit less passionate competing argument. |
| Timidity makes you prey, even the weak will become guileful enough to exploit you if they believe you’re a fool. This is a matter of opportunistic disrespect rather than sadistic hate. |
| A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal,fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |
| A lot of the problems of male behavior is that there is no proper outlet for male violence. |
| A question you MUST ask yourself as part of your ancient self: What would you die for? What do you owe to your community? |
| Man conquers the world by conquering himself. |
| I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. |
| Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. |
| Necessity is not only the mother of invention, but the mainspring of exertion. The presence of some urgent, piecing, imperious necessity, will often not only sting a man into marvelous exert, but into a sense of the possession, within himself, of powers and resources which else had slumbered on through a long life, unknown to himself and never suspected by others. A man never knows the strength of his grip till life and limb depend upon it. Something is likely to be done when something must be done. If you wish to make your son helpless, you need not cripple him with bullet or bludgeon, but simply place him beyond the reach of necessity and surround him with ease and luxury. This experiment has often been tried and has seldom failed. As a general rule, where circumstances do most for men, there man will do least for himself; and where man does least, he himself is least. His doing or not doing makes or unmakes him. |
| If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly. |
| Listen. Easy now,” said the old man gently. “I know, I know. You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” |
| But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modem sentimentality, weakened the fiber of each civilized race in tum; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful. |
| A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in anything he is doing is right or wrong – acting the part of a good man or bad. |
| I will accept any rules that YOU feel necessary to YOUR freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I ALONE am morally responsible for everything I do. |
| Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel onward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. |
| Morpheous: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. |
| How often Is it that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self I telling him. |
| Impossible is a state of mind. Who we spend our time around is who we anchor around. So how do we anchor around a new set of people? What is your nothing is impossible community? |
| There is an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups. To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behavior as individuals within the group. |
| Man is free if he needs to obey no person but solely the laws. |
| Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. |
| How you deal with 5 year olds is how you deal with 25 year olds. |
| Ooh la la! That is what is going through the Don Juan’s mind. Ooh la la! For this it the only thing that is in a Don Juan’s head when he is with the lovely young lady! Lady La Hotness! Ooh la la! But many guys do not have ‘ooh la Ia’ n their heads. Rather they have, “Am I funny enough or interesting enough?” |
| Mediocrities avoid risk the way alcoholics avoid a cure. |
| A man does not walk through life walking on eggshells. |
| Momentary pain is preferable to consistent suffering. |
| If you are not changed by life, you are not living life. Only by those who are not altered by life are those totally unaware of it. |
| Always be a Sexual One. It is a Great Attractor. |
| If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t. |
| What you don’t understand is that your father was your model for God. What you end up doing, is you spend your life searching for a father and god. |
| What would you feel if you placed fourth in a race and I awarded you the prize of first place instead? The prize for first place is worthless to you…because you haven’t earned it. But you can enjoy a modest satisfaction placing fourth; you earned it. |
| A man – a real man – shoots his own dog himself; he doesn’t hire a proxy who may bungle it. |
| Punishment must be so unusual as to be significant, to deter, to instruct. |
| I had at last found out what was wrong with me. I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal…but a man. |
| It would be best to be both loved and feared, but, when necessity forces a choice, it is better to be feared, because men love at their convenience but they fear at the convenience of the prince. Friends may fail you, but the dread of punishment will ever forsake you. |
| The prince should have no other object or thought but the art of war. He must be armed, since it is quite unreasonable for one who is armed to obey one who is unarmed. |
| Therefore, so as not to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, nor to be forced to become rapacious, a prince should esteem it little to incur a name for meanness, because this is one of those vices which enable him to rule. |
| Men have less hesitation to offend one who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared; for love is held by a chain of obligation, and is broken at every opportunity for their own utility, but fear is eld by a dread of punishment that never forsakes you. |
| If one has good arms, one will always have good friends. |
| Bravery trumps kindness every time in love, likability, etc. |
| Everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself. |
| To become indignant at people’s conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the worst thing you can do is to resolve to make use of those who you cannot alter. |
| Today, all good, modern, civilized men living in the Western world are taught to be good global citizens whose racial, cultural, and religious loyalties must always be subordinate to a broader and more inclusive commitment to the human race. 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. |
| Masculinity means being born a boy who can only become a man by becoming stronger, by overcoming fearfulness, by becoming more competent and confident in his abilities, and by earning the respect and admiration of other men. |
| The way to manhood is through the gauntlet, and there is no end to it. Manhood is not a destination but a title to be defended. |
| The idea that a man should be “secure in his masculinity” is a bourgeois fantasy invented by therapists and repeated by women. Every king, every chief, every world record holder and every silverback gorilla looks over his shoulder. |
| This gauntlet must be run whether a boy likes it or not, whether he accepts it or rejects it. To reject the struggle is forfeiture. Avoiding the struggle is an acceptance of defeat and a demonstration of spiritual cowardice. |
| Eternal peace is the death of manliness. The peace sign is a death rune. |
| To compound the tragedy of manhood, masculinity is a human universal – something that all men have in common – but universalism destroys masculinity. Without separation there can be no conflict and without conflict there can be no vital masculinity. To say that you love every man as your brother is not only a lie, but a resignation to impotence and a forfeiture of manhood. |
| Better to live vigorously, better to fight, than to simply wait for the end…in peace. |
| Any vestigial sense of social identity still present in Western men, any desire to observe and maintain social boundaries or protect perimeters, is highly discouraged by Western governments and corporate cultures alike. |
| You have an ethical responsibility as a citizen to forthrightly confront tyranny wherever it occurs. |
| One of the things men should do as they mature is transform themselves into montsers, but also become civilized at the same time. |
| A man who fears suffering is suffering from what he fears. |
| I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. |
| Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one. |
| The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human character. |
| Courage is adversity’s lamp. |
| There is a single reason why 99 out of 100 average business men never become leaders. That is their unwillingness to pay the price of responsibility. By the price of responsibility I mean hard driving, continual work…the courage to make decisions, to stand the gaff…the scourging honesty of never fooling yourself about yourself. You travel the road to leadership heavily laden. While the nine-to-five-o’clock worker takes his ease, you are toiling upward through the night. Laboriously you extend your mental frontiers. Any new effort, the psychologists say, wears a new groove in the brain. And the grooves that lead to the heights are not made between nine and five. They are burned in by midnight oil. |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. |
| When men function out of rules and laws, they do the bare minimum they can without being punished. |
| The best recipe for happiness, according to the ancient thinkers, is the right balance of contemplative and active virtues gradually achieved over a lifetime of experience in the trials of public and private life. |
| When you are giving up, someone else is still going. |
| Your future self is looking back and judging your every action. |
| People of character do the right thing even if no one else is, not because it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world. |
| It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a Gardner in a war. |
| The definition of a man is someone you can count on when the enemy comes. |
| Aside from male bonding, nearly every other source of stimulus in a modern boy/man’s life is going to cause an undesirable effect. Television has been feminized, the internet has been feminized, schools have been feminized, and even online forums such as reddit are rampantly diluted. There are few places of masculine bonding, but men/boys need it more than ever. The existence of TRP is virtualized monument of that need. Social interaction with men is a positive experience and research by Phillip Zimbardo shows that men actually prefer the social company of men. This socialization causes a cortical arousal that has a direct effect on the [reticulating activating system] and leads to higher production of vasopression. Does this scenario sound surprisingly familiar to the social anxiety experienced by many men (and women)? “In a later study on the effect of total isolation from birth, the researchers found that the test monkeys, upon being released into a group of ordinary monkeys, “usually go into a state of emotional shock, characterized by . . . autistic self-clutching and rocking.” Harlow noted, “One of six monkeys isolated for three months refused to eat after release and died five days later.” After several weeks in the company of other monkeys, most of them adjusted—but not those who had been isolated for longer periods. “Twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially,” Harlow wrote. They became permanently withdrawn, and they lived as outcasts—regularly set upon, as if inviting abuse.” |
| We are tolerant of bullshit, of our circumstances, and of not getting what we desire. We “anesthetize ourselves with sports and pornography.” Instead of letting boys wrestle, fight, explore, and physically exert themselves, we pump them full of drugs as to “not upset the girls” with their budding masculinity. Instead of participating in sports, we watch them on TV and play video games, vicariously achieving… nothing. This molds the charisma and youthful exuberance of a child into an insecure, mentally absent adult with no real life experiences to draw upon in times of difficulty. We’ve created a state of “yes men” toward feminists that will bend to every whim and outrage of the movement. A “man” that’s so terrified of confrontation, commitment, and being alone that he will do anything to avoid it. |
| Women admire anybody who is calm, collected, unemotional, focused, ambitious, motivated, unshakeable, confident, powerful, and happy. They also like people who are disciplined, live by rules, and have strong boundaries – because those things break weak emotions. Depression makes you want to sleep all day – well you can conquer depression if you are forced to wake up at 6 AM to go the gym! Women are also attracted to men who are not afraid of other men and cannot be broken or intimidated by other men (or nature). If a man is calm, focused, and driven, and can also defeat other men in whatever competition exists, then there is nothing to worry about in life and no cause for weak emotions. He can obtain food, a place to live, comfort, security, happiness, etc… He may not be able to deliver those things today, but he has the emotional make-up for it. Women need that. |
| You should learn how to generate positive experiences for other people. But How? By creating value for the ingroup rather than taking it. Whenever a beta male enters a social interaction they seek to take value in an effort to make themselves feel better about being such a fucking beta. This manifests in compensating, inventing bullshit grievances, virtue signaling and trying to take sex from women in an effort to feel masculine. Alphas make value by building social groups, creating experiences and pillaging outgroups. The key here is to demonstrate what you can offer, not give it away. Too many guys misinterpret this principle and try to win others over with gifts of attention, jokes, flirting, etc. |
| A shit-test is emotionally manipulative behavior, and we are shit-tested constantly – not only by the romantically interesting women in our lives, but by almost everyone we meet. Most people don’t realize what they are doing; they are simply using learned behavior that has often yielded results. So why is this learned behavior so effective? We are a generation of men raised by women. Developed in childhood, our coping strategies tend to be about appeasing others to the detriment of our self-interest. The indoctrination continues as we grow into adults. Our educational system compels us to artificially enforce self-esteem and confidence in others, regardless of merit. Our media deludes us with the chivalry-is-rewarded, true-love-conquers-all, happily-ever-after myth. In short, we are being taught cradle to grave to take ownership of the anxieties of others because that will give us validation and preserve us from harm. The corollary is that if there is a lack of validation or harm befalls us, it is because we did not adequately address those anxieties. Dealing with this shit crushes a man’s spirit, so he will spend a lot of time trying to predict how his own behavior might generate anxiety in others so that he may avoid, deflect or manage it. He pushes his own needs to the back while he attends to others, and isolates himself to reduce the sickening workload. This is the primary ingredient of the Blue Pill. Therefore, I propose that the axiom of the Red Pill is to refuse the “gift” of negative emotion from others, expressed or implied. The guy who tells you your shirt looks stupid. The girl who asks you to buy her a drink. A clingy mother. A verbally abusive father. All trying to move you via negative emotion. All different, yet all the same. It’s not about fighting back – it’s about refusing to engage at all. The first sign you are being given a “gift” is when your interaction with someone is making you feel compelled to do something you don’t want to. When you find yourself in that situation, take a moment and ask yourself, “Is this what I want to do/say?” If not, refuse to comply. Just say no. It is almost certain that other person will increase the pressure. How dare you not do that thing! It is there, right at that moment, when you feel that increased sense of guilt, the need to appease and not rock the boat and make that person happy, that you are feeling the withdrawal symptoms of the Blue Pill. Note it. File it. Embrace it. Make it your companion. Then double down on your refusal to do something contrary to your own desires and self-interest. I am working hard to refuse the “gifts” that are offered to me every single day. If people go away because I don’t take their gifts? Good riddance. Because you know who is happier for the change? I am. And that’s refreshing. |
| Being nice was (and still is) a cancerous growth at the core of interactions with others. |
| Every man needs to understand his own values, and those values must drive his behavior. It’s not for me to say what a man’s values should be, but only that he must possess and protect them if he hopes to succeed in anything. |
| Men who disregard their values and cower from disapproval live in a spiritual vacuum. |
| The highest praise that one can give a man is that he is capable of doing harm but chooses not to. |
| Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power. |
| Less strength means it is less likely that you will be able to push someone away who wants to take something from you, and on a strictly physical level, reduced strength means a diminished ability to take what you want from someone else. A person who is too weak simply cannot survive. It is strength that makes all other values possible. |
| Getting stronger—increasing strength—means increasing your ability, as an individual, a gang or a nation, to do as you wish with relative impunity. What is freedom, if not the ability to do what one wishes? |
| Courage, as Aristotle noted, in its highest and purest form, involves the willful risk of bodily harm or death for the good of the group. |
| Courage is also the eagerness to get into the fight, the berserker rage, and then the absolute commitment to the fight in the face of pain, of disfigurement, until death. |
| Evolutionarily, the postures, gestures and intonations of males generally regarded as effeminate are in fact postures, gestures and intonations that communicate submissiveness. The man who flamboyantly rejects the honor codes of the group can obviously not be trusted to “snap to” in a state of emergency. Dishonor is disloyalty. A man who not only openly refuses to strive to be as strong, courageous and competent as he can, but who flaunts these codes theatrically for all to see is a weak link. He makes his peers seem more vulnerable for tolerating vulnerability, and more cowardly for tolerating cowardice. |
| A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave. |
| How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight? |
| The #1 defining trait of a beta is a fear of going after war he desires. He doesn’t pursue what he wants because he doesn’t think he is capable of getting it. He worries about other people’s needs before his own. |
| A man who cannot defend his own space cannot defend women and children. |
| A man who does not act on his sexual desires is a man who is needy, lacks vulnerability and is therefore unattractive. |
| Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose. |
| Some men fear the feeling of fear and therefore don’t even approach their edge. If you are this kind of man who is hanging back, working hard perhaps, but not at your real edge, other men will not be able to trust that you can and will help them live at their edge and give their fullest gift. |
| Honor your edge. Honor your choices. Be honest with yourself about them. Be honest with your friends about them. A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear. And a fearful man who still leans into his fear, living at his edge and putting his gift out from there, is more trustworthy and more inspirational than a fearful man who hangs back in the comfort zone, unwilling to even experience his fear on a day to day level. |
| There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed. |
| They want to feel like a man, but don’t, and figure they’ll start acting like one when they start feeling like one. But this feeling never arrives, and the sense of being in limbo continues. |
| Courage has been the sin qua non of manhood in every time and place throughout all of human history. |
| One loves in proportion to the sacrifices that one has committed and the troubles that one has suffered. One loves the house that one has built and that one passes on. |
| It’s hard to deny the Protector pillar’s importance in a robust and complete idea of manliness. This dimension of masculinity is what modern men lack most acutely in their lives. |
| If you break a finger you stop what you’re doing. But if you’re playing a championship football game, it is analgesic. it suppresses the pain and even the anxiety. So, if you have a purpose, it is analgesic. Takes some of the pain out of life. It energizes you. It focuses you. It causes you to remember. It quells fear. FIND YOUR PURPOSE. |
| If you are not a monster you cannot negotiate. |
| The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman; not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, opens, and depth |
| Be it so. The burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to our national customs. |
| Becoming an outsider within is similar to what Ernst Junger called “the forest passage.” When one cannot escape modernity, one must secede spiritually and nurture a world within a world. Junger believed that each of us carries some unquantifiable grain of primordial existence, something alive that allows us to see a forest of life and meaning even in the desert of the mechanized modern world. He imagined his forest rebels as lone wolves, but as the necessary revolt against modern universalism is tribalism, packs of wolves are required. Men must become packs of werewolves — civilized men who transform themselves into something wild and alien to the Empire, carrying the forest with us even in when surrounded by metal and glass, making unbreakable bonds amidst millions of fair-weather “friends” and superficially concerned strangers. |
| The best men are not loners, they are leaders. The best men, the greatest exemplars of virility, are not the spoiled, decadent inheritors of crowns and laurels — they are the men who earn the respect, trust and admiration of other men in their own lifetimes. Men who do not lead are not empowered by always going it alone. They become the best, most powerful versions of themselves by working in concert with other men, bringing everything they have and using it to accomplish more than they could accomplish by themselves. |
| If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. |
| Greatness means strife for nation and man alike. A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage… We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. |
| To my mind, a coward is the only thing meaner than a liar. |
| I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. |
| The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. |
| Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. |
| If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness. |
| The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The role is easy; there is none easier, save only the role of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance. |
| There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. |
| We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. |
| “Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men buy showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the heady.” – Richard Weaver |
| “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” |
| “Image and perception are everything, and those who possess them have the ability to determine their own myth, to be taken at their own valuation.” -Christopher Hitchens |
| “…I positively like stress, arrange to inflict it on myself, and sheer awkwardly away from anybody who tries to promise me a more soothed or relaxed existence.” -Christopher Hitchens |
| “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” – Abraham Lincoln |
| “The gods are on the side of the stronger.” |
| “By being employees they signal a certain type of domestication. Someone who has been employed for a while is giving you strong evidence of submission. Evidence of submission is displayed by the employee’s going through years depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, his ritualistic and punctual arrival at an office, his denying himself his own schedule, and his not having beaten up anyone on the way back home after a bad day. He is an obedient, housebroken dog.” |
| “A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.” ― Theodore Roosevelt |
| “Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” – Marcus Aurelius |
| “If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.” Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper |
| “In men of intellect the desire for prestige is often the most disgusting, especially when there’s no native manliness, because this leads to cowardice and lies, to others and oneself. For this reason Nietzche said manliness is the first requirement of the philosopher, but there’s no one farther from the philosopher than the unmanly nerd, and there’s no enemy more implacable of the human race and of the genius of the species, than just this nerd and everything he represents.” – Bronze Aged Pervert |
| “The 40% rule. When your mind is telling you that you’re done, that you’re exhausted, that cannot possibly go any further, you’re only actually 40% done.” -David Goggins |
| “You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he’s not, he’s a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.” – George Patton |
| “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” |
| “What stands in the way becomes the way.” |
| Nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. Nor do all things turn out for him as he wished but as he reckoned – and above all he reckoned that something could block his plans. – Seneca. |
| Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. – George S Patton |