War quotes

“There is no true glory in war.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Persian: Our arrows will blot out the sun!
- King Leonidas: Then we will fight in the shade.”
Kwasi Songui - Persian
Gerard Butler - King Leonidas

“- Brig. Gen. George Crook: A lot of White-Eyes want to see Geronimo hanged for murder.
- Geronimo: Not murder. War. Many bad things happen in war.”
Gene Hackman - Brig. Gen. George Crook
Wes Studi - Geronimo

“If I want to die, I'll die right here, right now, fightin' you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese.”

Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“People on the street corners, they looked at this picture and they took hope. But it said we can win this war, are winning this war.”
John Slattery - Bud Gerber

“1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.”
Wong Kar-wai

“- 1st Lieutenant Steve Phelps: That's not the correct procedure...
- Captain Jerry Lawson: Screw the procedure, I want somebody on the goddamn phone before I kill 20 million people!”
Michael Madsen - Steve
John Spencer - Jerry

“As terrible as it was, something began to change. We could feel a sense of time. As if each moment held its own significance. We began to realize that for our existence to hold any value it must end.”

Tricia Helfer - Number Six

“- Dr. Kathryn Railly: What is the matter with your leg?
- James Cole: Got shot.
- Dr. Kathryn Railly: Shot! Who shot you?
- James Cole: I don't know. It was some kind of war. Never mind. You wouldn't believe me anyway.”
Madeleine Stowe - Kathryn Railly
Bruce Willis - James Cole

“It is our hope that all the world's oceans be joined in peace, so why do the winds and waves now rise up in an angry rage?”

Isao Natsuyagi - Teizaburo Sekiya

“Growing up in Oregon we had this electric fence around our property. Us kids'd grab on to it to see who could hold on the longest. War feels kinda like that. Puts lightening in your bones, makes it hard to hold on to anything else.”
Luke Grimes - Marc Lee

“- Joe: That makes everything harder to trace.
- Al: Boy, you must have done some stealing during the war.”
George Burns - Joe
Art Carney - Al

“It's my leg! I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's I'm saying is that I want to be treated like a human being! I fought for my country! I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country! And I think that I deserve to be treated... decent!”

Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“Who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters? It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries, sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood, the blood of our people. And now you dispatch your peacekeepers to write our destiny again. We can never accept...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marcel Iures - Dusan Gavrich

“When the war came it changed everybody's lives. I left my cosy job in an office and volunteered for the Women's Land Army. We all had to pull together to help win the war. We had to grow more food or starve. I chose the Lawrence farm to be near my fiancé Philip who was an officer in the Navy.”
Catherine McCormack - Stella

“We of the Conservative government think that it's appalling to spend billions on nuclear weapons if they're not going to be used.”
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

“No politician can afford to let women come home in body bags.”
Anne Bancroft - Lillian DeHaven

“We will never know who started the war, General. But we do know who brought it to an end.”
Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers

“Any man with a collection like this is a man who's never set foot on a battlefield. To him a minié ball from Shiloh is just an artifact. But to a combat vet, it's a hunk of metal that caused some poor bastard a world of pain.”

Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- T-4 Medic Wade: Corporal, what's your book about?
- Corporal Upham: It's supposed to be about the bonds of brotherhood developed between soldiers during war.
- Private Caparzo: Brotherhood? What do you know about brotherhood?”
Giovanni Ribisi - T-4 Medic Wade
Jeremy Davies - Corporal Upham
Vin Diesel - Private Caparzo

“This thing has dragged on too long for it to end in all sweetness and light and after what the Khmer Rouge have been through I don't think they're going to be exactly affectionate toward westerners.”
Spalding Gray - U.S. Consul

“- Kay: Arquillian battle rules, kid. First we get an ultimatum, then a warning shot, then we have a galactic standard week to respond.
- Jay: A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?
- Kay: One hour.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“War is a scourge, but so is slavery. It is the systematic coercion of one group of men over another. It has been around since the book of Genesis. It exists in every corner of the world, but that is no excuse for us to tolerate it here when we find it right infront of our very eyes in our own country.”
Jeff Daniels - Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“- Mrs. Hooten: We took a Sudanese refugee into our home!
- Tommy Corn: You did. But how did Sudan happen, ma'am? Could it possibly be related to dictatorships that we support for some stupid reason?”

Jean Smart - Mrs. Hooten
Mark Wahlberg - Tommy Corn

“We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills.”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius