
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
As quoted in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 364
1970s
Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat, Phyllis Schlafly Columns, 2007-03-30, Schlafly, Phyllis, 2005-06-01 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/june05/05-06-01.html,
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
As quoted in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 364
1970s
Introduction, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).
Context: Consideration of motives brings up the matter of free will. I had better say once, that my project of taking animal comparisons seriously does not involve a slick mechanistic or deterministic view of freedom. Animals are not machines; one of my main concerns is to combat this notion. Actually only machines are machines.
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (5 December 1935)
Letters
Context: You express amazement at my statement that 'civilized' men try to justify their looting, butchering and plundering by claiming that these things are done in the interests of art, progress and culture. That this simple statement of fact should cause surprize, amazes me in return. People claiming to possess superior civilization have always veneered their rapaciousness by such claims...
Your friend Mussolini is a striking modern-day example. In that speech of his I heard translated he spoke feelingly of the expansion of civilization. From time to time he has announced; 'The sword and civilization go hand in hand!' 'Wherever the Italian flag waves it will be as a symbol of civilization!' 'Africa must be brought into civilization!' It is not, of course, because of any selfish motive that he has invaded a helpless country, bombing, burning and gassing both combatants and non-combatants by the thousands. Oh, no, according to his own assertions it is all in the interests of art, culture and progress, just as the German war-lords were determined to confer the advantages of Teutonic Kultur on a benighted world, by fire and lead and steel. Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those.
2012-02-10
Santorum Steps In It: Women Shouldn't be in Combat Because of 'Other Types of Emotions'
Tina
Dupuy
Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/santorum-steps-it-says-women-shouldnt-b
2012-02-21
As quoted in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 December 2014, p. 20.
“The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.”
Mike Wallace interview (4 November 1958), quoted in The Great Quotations (1966) by George Seldes
Other speeches and writings
Maps of Meaning
Source: Men Under Stress, 1945, p. 44
“Women shouldn’t be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 223)