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“Words have meaning, and we should respect them.”

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“I propose three models—archetypes if you like—that comprise the dimensions of a chivalrous gentleman’s character: the warrior, the lover, and the monk.”

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“Men and women don’t have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.”

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“There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.”

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“I often hear it said that violence is not inevitable, and, therefore, that a warrior attitude and training are unnecessary. I once thought so too, but I grew up, and now the pacifists and I are simply moral strangers.”

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“a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.”

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“A gentleman, I hope it will become clear, is not simply a man who stands apart. He is a man who stands up for others—sometimes even for his enemies—often when those others have no clue that he is there for them.”

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“Societal civility is the extension and expansion of individual gallantry: it’s all about—or ought to be about—balance and restraint”

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“It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!”

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“Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.”

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“There is a worldwide longing for civility.”

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“Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.”

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“The compleat gentleman has always been akin to the warrior, but it does not follow that he has always been a soldier. When duty calls, he will be a fighter, but his martial skill may be practiced with his wits rather than his fists.”

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“A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.”

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“The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.”

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“To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.”

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“A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.”

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“A man is not made chivalrous by an extensive education. A college degree and advanced academic achievement are as often impediments to chivalry as they are inducements to it.”

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“Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.”

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“It was not enough for knights simply to love and fight well; they needed to sacrifice everything for the highest ideals, such as a Grail quest.”

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“From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.”

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“Life is a martial art.”

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“Hollywood, especially, has tended to portray the warrior as a dysfunctional individual.”

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“We value education, but we do not understand its history.”

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“A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.”

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“Education is the empowerment of the mind to continuously seek the true and the beautiful, regardless of ideological distractions.”

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“The compleat gentleman’s rectitude does not prohibit him from having a sense of humor. His Stoic sense of life and his urbane education ought to give him wit.”

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“I do not feel superior to nineteenth-century gentlemen or twelfth-century knights”

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“Peace is justice in foreign relations; equality is justice in society; passion is justice in marriage; wisdom is justice in education; restraint is justice in behavior.”

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“I acknowledge the efficacy of a kind of peacemaking, especially in the hothouse climate of so many American schools. However, strength and honor more dependably keep the peace than does palaver about psychic posture and moral equivalence.”

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“I do not believe our gentleman Boy Scout should obsess about combat. I do think he ought to be concerned about combat readiness. A man, however hard he works for peace, must always be ready for war.”

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“A compleat gentleman seeks a harmonious union of body and soul, and if his will—his soul—is strong then his body ought to be strong as well.”

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