Machismo Quotes:

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

- Germaine Greer

source: Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

topic: Men, Tragedy, Never Quit, Machismo

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Greatness, Rainbow, Racism, Machismo

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

- Kevin Smith

topic: Inspirational, Father, Real, Real Men, Shooter

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

- Alain de Botton

source: "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety, Weakness And Fear, Machismo

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Baby, Lunch, Laundry, Machismo

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

- Jimmy Buffett

source: Jimmy Buffett (2002). “Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Home, Should Have, Guilt, Machismo

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

- Pedro Almodovar

source: Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

topic: Character, Males, Female, Female Characters, Fewer

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

- Trevanian

source: Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.137, Broadway Books

topic: Fun, Opportunity, Justice, Standards Of Living, Articulation

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

- Anthony Brandt

topic: Change, Family, Grandparent, Happy Family, Large Family

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Political, Driving, Exile, Correctness, Machismo

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

- Macklemore

topic: Art, People, Hip Hop, Egocentric, Hip Hop Music

For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as either the best or worst examples of American manliness.... The ideal is not an illusion nor is it contemptible, no matter what damage it may have done. Many people who scorn it in conversation want to submit to it in bed. Those who believe machismo reeks of violence alone choose to forget it once stood for honor as well.

- Edmund White

source: 1980 States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, ch.5.

topic: Manliness, Northerners, Machismo

The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

- Juan Carlos Copes

topic: Dance, Men, Two, Tango, Coupling

Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

- Stan Goff

topic: Two, Ducks, June, Misogyny, Machismo

Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.

- Dick Gephardt

source: "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.

topic: War, Winning, May, Short Sighted, Machismo

The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."

- Ann Coulter

source: "No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. May 3, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Guy, Presidential, Brits, News Channels

The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Thinking, Scary, Machismo

What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.

- Jaron Lanier

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Loss, Feelings, Desire, Machismo

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

- Yoko Ono

source: "Just imagine". Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 03, 2001.

topic: War, Thinking, Vietnam, Anti Vietnam War, Machismo

I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.

- Nick Offerman

topic: Thinking, People, Attention, Sissy, Manliness

My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"

- Willie Herron

topic: Fall, Thinking, Artist, Machismo

I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.

- Nick Offerman

source: Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

topic: Hair, People, Healthy, Superhuman Powers, Facial Hair

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

- John Darnielle

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Thinking, Singers, Outlasting, Machismo

One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.

- Tom Peters

topic: Jobs, Taken, Power, Sissy, Machismo

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

- Lorrie Moore

source: Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.371, Faber & Faber

topic: Cat, Athletic, Midwest, Machismo