Sebastian Stan Quotes

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

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

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

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

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Trump... has the 'strong father' masculine energy.

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

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

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

The real victims of men are other men.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.