Quotes About Conflict

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

Opposites attract - and then aggravate.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Never let the sun go down upon your anger.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

Women initiate most domestic violence.

One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them "too much effort.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.