Subject: Conflict (Page 7)

Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

Man should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

(1849 – 1926) American botanist & horticulturist

At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?'… 'Oh, honey – that's up to Mommy, isn't it?'

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

Trying to give my kids an education in Los Angeles is a nightmare with the guns, the gangs, the drugs – and I'm home schooling them.

American comedian & writer

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

Those who hammer their guns into ploughs will plough for those who do not.

(1743 – 1826) American Founding Father & 3rd U.S. president

The Middle Eastern states aren’t nations, they’re quarrels with borders.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

(1867 – 1928) English journalist & novelist

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night… and reduce the crime rate.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

When the Iraq war started … little did George Bush know.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

If you can’t beat them, arrange 
to have them beaten

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.

(1951 – ) American conservative radio talk-show host

You break into my house… my wife will shoot you, and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

I think if the postal service had any balls, they would issue a series of stamps commemorating all the people who have been killed by mailmen.

comedian

You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

If our politicians were better at pretending to get along, there wouldn’t be any war.

Guns don't kill people; it's those bullets ripping through the body.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist