Compleat Gentleman Quotes

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“To be properly educated, one must reject contemporary pedagogical enthusiasms.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The compleat gentleman is not a perfect man.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“There is a worldwide longing for civility.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Education is the empowerment of the mind to continuously seek the true and the beautiful, regardless of ideological distractions.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“chivalry demands that a man respect a woman’s wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady’s lackey.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“We value education, but we do not understand its history.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Coming close to death is a humbling experience.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Hollywood, especially, has tended to portray the warrior as a dysfunctional individual.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Life is a martial art.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― brad miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“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!”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Chivalry was more an ambition than an accomplishment, but—and this is the important thing—it was the common ambition of increasing numbers of men, and it had the effect of elevating and concretizing their civil righteousness. Religion also did this.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry