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Quotes About Conflict

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
~ William Faulkner
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .
~ Janet Flanner
Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
~ Evan Esar
Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
~ Andre Maurois
War is not women's history.
~ Virginia Woolf
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
~ Stephen Colbert
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~ Hermione Gingold
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.
~ Garry Marshall
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
~ Judy Davis
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
~ Jonathan Swift
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
~ Susan Sarandon
It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
~ Samuel Butler
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
~ Juvenal
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).
~ Manis Friedman
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.
~ Jackson Browne
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.
~ Arthur Desmond
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.
~ Ralph Peters
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
~ Martha Gellhorn
And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.
~ Tomas Young