War quotes

“Gentlemen, see you after the war.”
Richard Burton - Maj. Smith

“They want us to be good little boys now so we can fight some war for them in the future. Some war they'll decide on. We'd rather fight our own war right now.”

Timothy Hutton - Brian Moreland

“I put no stock in religion. By the word religion, I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God.”
David Thewlis - Hospitaler

“Killing generals could get to be a habit with me.”
Charles Bronson - Joseph Wladislaw

“- Sean: Oh good idea! We're not at war with Germany.
- Phoebe: We were at war with Vietnam.
- Sean: What?
- Phoebe: It's in Rambo!”

Andre Gower - Sean
Ashley Bank - Phoebe

“- Supreme Chancellor Palpatine: Do you really think it will come to war?
- Yoda: The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.”
Ian McDiarmid - Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
Frank Oz - Yoda

“You all take a good look at this lump of shit. Remember what it looks like. You fuck up in a firefight and I goddamn guarantee you a trip out of the bush, in a body bag!”

Tom Berenger - Sgt. Barnes

“- Private: Sergeant, you got any advice on how to stay alive in Vietnam?
- Sergeant Cota: Yes, I do, Private. Don't go.”
Cole Hauser - Staff Sgt. Cota

“The whole war may be futile. But would you give up then?”
Ken Watanabe - General Tadamichi Kuribayashi

We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
Marlon Brando - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

“Every war has its casualties, just ask my brother.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“- Kelly Ernswiler: War is hell.
- Sarah: Oh, well then, why do you do it?
- Kelly Ernswiler: You're never more alive than when faced with simulated death.”

Shia LaBeouf - Kelly Ernswiler
Shiri Appleby - Sarah

“We're going to have a vote and go to war. We'll fight people, kill them. Our children will get killed. This is exactly the sort of thing that I didn't want to do when I went into politics.”

Tom Hollander - Simon Foster

That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones "Go tell the Spartans, that here by Spartan law, we lie".
David Wenham - Dilios

“We call this friendly fire, friendly fucking, or getting friendly fucked.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“In Vietnam I had men that were dead the day they hit that place. In the morning they were in Hawaii, in the afternoon they were dead.”
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“Auschwitz was it's own country, with its own rules and its own logic, and these rules changed from day to day, from situation to situation. We, who were there, who lived it, could not judge one another.”
Christine Lahti - Gisella Perl

“I already gave them my word. I told them I'd bring them all home to their mothers, which means I already lied to half of them. Can't lie to the rest.”

Barry Pepper - Mike Strank

“After twenty straight days of bombing, you won't find a blade of grass or a twig on it.”
Robert Patrick - Colonel Chandler Johnson

“- Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad: Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
- The Sergeant: That's a World War One memorial.
- Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad: But the name's are the same.
- The Sergeant: They always are.”

Kelly Ward - Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad
Lee Marvin - The Sergeant

“You watched CNN during Desert Storm. You remember all those television shots from the nose cone of the GBU missiles slammin' into those trucks? Remember that picture? How it kept gettin' closer and bigger on the screen... You'd just about see the faces of those drivers and then... Zap! The picture went dead, we didn't get to see what happened...” (continue)(continue reading)

George Clooney - Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe

“With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the Earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The magic world of the ones that live in the ocean, and the world of men, separated. Through the centuries their world, and all the inhabitants of it stopped trying. The world of man become more violent. War upon war played out, as there were no guides to listen to.”
Paul Giamatti - Cleveland Heep

“I've seen a lot of killing... which it's our duty to do, because it's kill or be killed. Sometimes you hate the enemy so badly.”
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“Look at our current situation with that camel fucker over in Iraq. Pacifism is not something to hide behind.”
John Goodman - Walter Sobchak