Dave Navarro Quotes

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

The real victims of men are other men.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Men are irrelevant.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.