Antonio Lobo Antunes Quotes

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the trade of Kings.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.