Warren Farrell Quotes

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

Our valiant legionnaires and Regulares have shown what it is to be a man to the reds and their women who have finally known real men and not militiamen.

Men do things for other men in war that they would never do in peace.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.

Soldiers are the biggest heroes. No one can be a bigger hero than them.

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.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.