War quotes

“- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: You know, Pentagon duty isn't bad for a family.
- Zack: Neither is fishing, sir.
- Maj. Gen. V.E. Hubik: In your hat, Sergeant Major.
- Zack: Yes sir, General sir. Three bags full.”
Sandy Ward - General Hubik
James Garner - Zack

“It has put the weapons of this war back in your hands of you, the young, the powerful.”
Idris Elba - Commandant

“You're not giving orders. You're in my world now.”
James Badge Dale - Tyrone 'Rone' Woods

“The truth can't be allowed to live under the occupation. It's too dangerous. The occupation lives upon lies!”
Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“The uses of information, disinformation, and how their use is ultimately... power. They have agreed to open up their operations to us, they can't win the war without us, but they don't really want us here... Intelligence is their mother's milk, and they don't like sharing the royal tit with people that don't have titles.”

William Hurt - Philip Allen

“I've seen things here that I could never possibly have imagined, and I've got a pretty broad imagination.”

Mel Gibson - Gene

“Apocalypse is coming. You're fighting a god. Not all of us are going to survive this. Forget everything you think you know. None of that matters. You're not students anymore. You're X-Men!”
Jennifer Lawrence - Mystique

“Unless we're parked in San Diego Bay, you're at war every time you step on this boat.”

Gene Hackman - Reigart

“- Lytton Strachey: I know it was an obscene and ridiculous war, but, I suppose its quite convenient to have one.
- Lady Ottoline Morrell: Now we shall see some real progress, Lytton. We're on the threshold of a golden age.
- Lytton Strachey: You know, Ottili, given the circumstances, I really think we ought to dance.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
Penelope Wilton - Lady Ottoline Morrell

“If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family.”
Michael Douglas - Robert Wakefield

“Our intelligence tells us The Others are readying themselves for a final attack. The 5th Wave. What form it will take, we do not know. If they are successful, there will be no more Waves. No more conflicts. Humanity as we know it will be wiped from the face of the Earth.”

Liev Schreiber - Colonel Vosch

“It's always been the same. The excitement and rush to war. I met so many young men over the years who have thought they were running at their enemy, when the truth was, they were running to me.”

Roger Allam - Narrator

“The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...”

“The war is not over, but for me... it's over.”
Jesuthasan Antonythasan - Dheepan

“The Vietnamese... we worked with them, made something, something out of nothing... we want to stay here because it's ours, it belongs to us. It keeps our family together. I mean, we fought for that. While you Americans... you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history!”

Christian Marquand - Hubert de Marais

“- Agent Halpern: We have to consider the idea that our visitors are prodding us to fight among ourselves until only one faction prevails.
- Louise Banks: There's no evidence of that.
- Agent Halpern: Sure there is. Just grab a history book. The British with India, the German with Rwanda...”
Michael Stuhlbarg - Agent Halpern
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

“- Russel Blaze: Come work at the mill. There's nothing wrong with working for a living.
- Rodney Baze Jr.: Is it working for a living when a carried my best friend's legs under this arm, and the rest of him under this arm?”

Christian Bale - Russel Baze
Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.

“I saw terrible things... and I did terrible things. So if I'm talking to you, it will make me sad and it will make you too sad. In this life... I just want to be happy in this life.”
Abraham Attah - Agu

“There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.”

Colin Firth - King George VI

“I killed my share of French and English in the last war; all of them had fathers.”

Marcel Iures - Col. Werner Visser

“- Cyclops: Not all of us can control our powers.
- Mystique: Then don't! This is war!”
Tye Sheridan - Cyclops
Jennifer Lawrence - Mystique

“I know where Vietnam is; it's on TV. Southeast Asia? It's there, too?”
Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“- Commandant: You wanna take that brige?
- Young Soldiers: Yes sir!
- Commandant: We're gonna take that fucking bridge?
- Young Soldiers: Yes sir!”
Idris Elba - Commandant
Abraham Attah - Young Soldiers

“- Superman: I know I'm forbidden to interfere... and yet the Earth is threatened by the same fate as Krypton's.
- 1st Elder: The Earth is too primitive. You can flee to new worlds, where war is long forgotten.
- 2nd Elder: If you teach the Earth to put its fate in any one man, even yourself, you're teaching them to be betrayed.”
Christopher Reeve - Superman
David Garth - 1st Elder
Esmond Knight - 2nd Elder

“Strange thing about war wound; the older you get, the less proud of them you become.”
Marcel Iures - Col. Werner Visser