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  • Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

    Men   Honor   Littles  
    Norman Mailer (1968). “The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations”
  • The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

    Race   White   Politics  
  • To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

    Military   War   Doubt  
    Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.71, Lantern Books
  • Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

    Country   Prayer   Boys  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.417, Best Books on
  • The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

    Men   Males   Needs  
  • A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

    Mother   Jobs   Manhood  
  • The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.

    Teacher   Heart   Essence  
  • Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.

    Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262
  • Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

    Lying   Son   Goats  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.509, Bantam
  • A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

  • Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

    Hurt   Brother   Father  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

    Grief   Humor   Fighting  
    Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press
  • In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

    Men   Materials   Manhood  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

  • Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

  • Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

    Men   Order   Law  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Johann Christoph Hampe (1977). “Prayers from prison: prayers and poems”, Not Avail
  • Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

    Thee   Manhood  
    Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
  • In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.

    Heart   Boys   Fire  
    Michael Meade (1993). “Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men”, Harpercollins
  • I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.

    Men   Feminism   Trying  
    "Evangeline Lilly Is ‘Not Interested In Trying To Pretend To Be A Man’". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
  • It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

    Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.137, Broadway Books
  • Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.

    Sports   Children   Team  
    Source: www.theislamicmonthly.com
  • Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

    Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”
  • He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

    Ivory   Legs   Way  
    Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1259, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

    'Piano' (1918)
  • If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile...To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

    Life   Courage   Warrior  
  • Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

    Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center
  • Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

    Children   Hands   Parent  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.78
  • Battle... brings out all that is best.

  • Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

    Hero   Men   Perfect  
    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66
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