Fire in the Dark Quotes

“These venomous, needy souls speak of “toxic masculinity,” but who is more toxic than the person who needs to change to the whole world so that they can love themselves?”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods

“Nietzsche’s diagnosis of deicide mutated into a malignant iconoclasm, not in the name of strength and life-affirming values as he had hoped, but in a “Harrison Bergeron”-style handicapping of all aspirational ideals.”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods

“A graveyard of gods spreads out before us as we sit on our high seats and look out over the sands of time, littered with the half-sunk and crumbling visages of every Odin and Ozymandias.”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods

“The refusal to elevate an ideal of perfection because perfection is unattainable and near perfection is exceptional, is the product of a nihilistic ethos characterized by cowardice and self-loathing.”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods

“This horizontal culture of leveling has been replacing the vertical culture that preceded it — a culture that looked upward for inspiration to gods in the heavens and heroes on marble pedestals. Ancient and recent heroes of men have been posthumously diabolized by the thumbs of bored and bitchy social media mobs — accused of brand spanking new sins they never knew they were committing”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods