“For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.” IfsThinkingMenMadeBigsFatherResponsibilityBoysProduceDadMy DadProductiveGood ManClose RelationshipBig Responsibility Author:Rafe Spall
“Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]” MenHumansLawFatherDivineGoodnessGood ManDecreeBonusDivine Law Author:Horace
“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.” MenLittlesDeathFatherHouseDarkRoomsFairsPassingPassingsGloriousGood ManEntertainingEntryPassing Through Author:Adam Clarke
“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.” IfsMenGivingMayMeanGovernmentFatherOpinionClassDemocracyObjectsBirthWalkingTraditionVoteDemocratRefuseAccidentsDefinedGood ManNeglectAncestorArrogantSubmitObscureExtensionsOur FatherRough TimesOligarchy Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.” MenWellsFatherSonArmsKingsLoversHusbandTrialsWarriorGreekGood ManCompanionUlyssesCalypso Author:James Joyce
“In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.” MenWorldWellsSelfFeelingsMotherFatherIndividualSpecialCenturyPureTasksSelfishDoctrinePerformingGenerousSufficientGood ManAggressiveProtectedCommerceProtectiveNineteenth CenturySelf SufficiencySufficiencySelf SufficientGood FamilySelfish World Author:Kenneth Keniston