Patricia Schroeder Quotes

When men cease to fight — they cease to be — Men

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.

It's the most ambitious power grab I've ever witnessed.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

I can stand out the war with any man.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.