War quotes

“A couple more years went by, and my dad brought his mother from Greece to live with us... Because we weren't weird enough - grandma says she will not be kidnapped by turks in Greece, hitting, and runnng out. We told my grandma the war was over... But she still slept with a knife under her pillow.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Fairy Child: Where's daddy? What's he doing?
- Fairy: He is guarding our home, son. There has been a war, and this land is lost.
- Fairy Child: Why can't we fight and win, mommy?
- Fairy: Because they have weapons and technology. We just have love.”
Barbara Sloane - Fairy

“- Efraim Diveroli: I think you should come work for me.
- David Packouz: I'm against this war.
- Efraim Diveroli: This isn't about being pro-war. This is about being pro-money.”
Jonah Hill - Efraim Diveroli
Miles Teller - David Packouz

“On this day in 1996 the world escaped the clutches of extinction. But in their sacrifice we found the technology to build a stronger and safer Earth, because our survival is only possible when we stand together.”

Sela Ward - President Lanford

“I'd rather face waves than dive-bombers.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton

“Wars don't leave people as they were. All people will learn this and come to see that wars do not have to be. We'll make this the last war. We'll make a free world for all men. The earth belongs to us, the people, if we fight for it. And we will fight for it!”

Anne Baxter - Marina Pavlov

“I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.”
Harrison Ford

“- Eduardo Ruiz: You guys remind me of Japanese soldiers on deserted islands who still think world war two is still going on. The fact is that your government surrendered this war a long fucking time ago.
- Montel Gordon: You know, I don't think this attitude is gonna help him in front of the judge. Eduardo, there is just one thing wrong with...” (continue)(continue reading)
Miguel Ferrer - Eduardo Ruiz
Don Cheadle - Montel Gordon

“- Capt. Loomis Birkhead: I tell ya, DuBois, there are drawbacks to being a general's aide. I mean, the general could have been a few minutes later, now couldn't he?
- Pvt. DuBois: Well, it is wartime, sir, we all have to make sacrifices.”

Tim Matheson - Capt. Loomis Birkhead
J. Patrick McNamara - Pvt. DuBois

“- Dave Brown: Every shooting testimony contains inconsistencies. No man whoever shoots and kills another man is entirely cogent in the moment. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
- Joan Confrey: Did you learn that with the first man you killed?
- Dave Brown: I learned that serving my country as a non-electric pop-up target in an often...” (continue)(continue reading)
Woody Harrelson - Dave Brown
Sigourney Weaver - Joan Confrey

“The most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom fighters.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“Keep shooting, you scum! You'll get a chance yet to die with your boots on!”
Brian Donlevy - Markoff

“If you're gonna talk about World War II as if you personally won it, let's be clear where you were stationed - on a film set, shooting blanks, wearing makeup, and if you're going to hit me, I'd like to take off my glasses.”

Bryan Cranston - Dalton Trumbo

“Your men are not prisoners of war... you are common criminals!”
Soon-Tek Oh - Colonel Yin

“- Tion Medon: Greetings, young Jedi. What brings you to our remote sanctuary?
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: Unfortunately, the war.
- Tion Medon: There is no war here unless you've brought it with you.”
Bruce Spence - Tion Medon
Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“The Others have the ability to inhabit human hosts and control their actions. They look just like us. They could be anywhere.”
Liev Schreiber - Colonel Vosch

“- Beast: All we have to do is stop a god, defeat the most powerful beings on earth and save the world.
- Mystique: Let's go to war.”
Nicholas Hoult - Beast
Jennifer Lawrence - Mystique

“You know how hard they tried to wash us out in flight school? The colored flyers, it was test after test, anything they can come up to turn us into the cooks, the drivers, the shit shovelers, but I refused to wash out, so did Archer, come hell or high water, we hit the books, we were determined not to spend the war being some niggers.”
Terrence Howard - Lt. Lincoln A. Scott

“- Chris: I volunteered. I dropped out of college, and told them I wanted the infantry, combat, and Vietnam.
- Crawford: You volunteered for this shit, man?
- Chris: You believe that?
- King: You's a crazy fucker, giving up college.
- Chris: It didn't make much sense. I wasn't learning anything.”
Charlie Sheen - Chris
Chris Pedersen - Crawford
Keith David - King

“- Gary Brown: Where did you get your bedside manner? College?
- Chuck Sundberg: No, I was an English major. My medical degree is from Vietnam.”
Richard Thomas - Gary Brown
Bill Geisslinger - Chuck Sundberg

- Helen Oakes: My God. It's 1962 all over again. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Do you remember Kennedy on television, telling Khrushchev to turn his boats around?
- Dr. Russell Oakes: "Full retaliatory response". He didn't bat an eye.
- Helen Oakes: We were in New York, in bed... just like this, remember? 118th street.
- Dr. Russell Oakes: Meatball... (continue)(continue reading)
Georgann Johnson - Helen Oakes
Jason Robards - Dr. Russell Oakes

“- Collins: Dunkirk's so far; why couldn't they load at Calais?
- Fortis Leader: The enemy had something to say about it.”
Jack Lowden - Collins
Sir Michael Caine - Fortis Leader

“- Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire 'til the Russians run out of bullets?
- Gust Avrakotos: That's Harold Holt's strategy, it's not U.S. strategy.
- Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy?
- Gust Avrakotos: Well, strictly speaking, we don't have one....” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“- Commander Bolton: The enemy tanks have stopped.
- Colonel Winnant: Why? Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like a fish in a barrel?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Commander Bolton
James D'Arcy - Colonel Winnant

“- Preston Packard: We're soldiers, we do the dirty work so that families back home don't suffer! They shouldn't even know that a thing like this exists!
- Mason Weaver: The world is bigger than this.
- Preston Packard: Bitch, please!”
Samuel L. Jackson - Preston Packard
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver