“If you want to follow The Way of Men, if you want to advance a return to honor and manly virtue, if you want to steel yourself against an uncertain future—start a gang.”

— Jack Donovan

How To Start A Gang
The Way of Men (2012)

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American activist, editor and writer 1974

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