George Carlin Quotes

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

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.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

The real victims of men are other men.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

We can't have a world without violence, because the world is half male.

War is the work of men, and being the work of men, is not inevitable.

The impression is given that this and other countries are at war with one another. They are not. Their governments, composed of men and responsible only to the men of each country, and backed by the majority of men who have caught the war and glory fever, have declared war on one another. The women of all these countries have not been consulted as to whether they would have war or not. If men deliberately shut out women, the peace-loving sex, from their rightful share in ruling their countries, then all the appeals and sentiments and prayers will be of no avail in preventing hostilities.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.