Civilization comes at a cost ...

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 civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.
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 Jack Donovan

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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 to do with a man’s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a man’s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.
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 Jack Donovan
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.
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 Jack Donovan
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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 Jack Donovan