Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men because without them, no 'higher' virtues can be entertained. You need to be alive to philosophize. You can add to these virtues and you can create rules and moral codes to govern them, but if you remove them from the equation altogether you aren't just leaving behind the virtues that are specific to men, you are abandoning the virtues that make civilization possible.

Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology, and culture. () It's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. History teaches us that if we don't, someone else will.

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

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.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.