Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. – Alice Thomas Ellis

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. – Alexis de Tocqueville