War quotes

“See you're thinking. Don't. 'Cause Sergeant, you can't control who gets hit or who doesn't or who falls out of a chopper or why. It ain't up to you. It's just war.”
Eric Bana - Hoot

“- Bob Skokes: What the hell are you dressed up for?
- Jim Tripplett: Yeah. Where's the war?
- Skinner: Up your ass.
- Jim Tripplett: Up your ass? How would you like the long end of this rifle up your ass?”
Jeff Prettyman - Bob Skokes
Lee Frederick - Jim Tripplett
Timothy O'Brien - Skinner

“- Gov. Harold R. Sims, Tennessee: In all candor, Mrs. Carey, I would find it very difficult to put the full prestige and honor of the governorship behind a crusade led by two men in a tank with a 20-year-old prostitute.
- LaDonna Carey: Governor, that's my husband and my son in that tank with that 20-year-old prostitute. If I don't have a...” (continue)(continue reading)
J. Don Ferguson - Governor Sims
Shirley Jones - LaDonna

“The reason why I'm here is because a buddy of mine who'd been in Vietnam took his own life today. This is kind of a funeral service. And I'm here because I'm trying to tell people, man, if we want to commit suicide, we have plenty of reasons to do it right here at home. We don't have to go to Vietnam to find reasons to kill ourselves. I just...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jon Voight - Luke Martin

“So, the American FBI declares war on us? Then war it is.”

David Hayman - Terek Murad

“In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action, what is often called ruthless, what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it.”
Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. Willard

“Dear Mr. Inman, I began by counting the days, then the months. I don't count on anything anymore except the hope that you will return, and the silent fear that in the years since we saw each other, this war, this awful war, will have changed us both beyond all reckoning.”
Nicole Kidman - Ada Monroe

“- Ens. Keith Larson, Chief Torpedoman: A typewriter?
- Lt. Hirsch: An Enigma code machine. It allows the German navy to communicate with it's submarines in secret, and our inability to decipher their messages is costing us this war.”

Matthew Settle - Ens. Keith Larson
Jake Weber - Lt. Hirsch

“War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?”
Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“The war reduced our male population by 68 percent. It made most of the human race sterile. But we're still at war. A population war. Each side is desperate to rebuild and rearm. Now, that requires manpower; manpower requires people.”
Eyde Byrde - Patton

“Fuck politics. We're here. All the rest is bullshit.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Alan Troy

“This is war, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You can not make an omelet without breaking eggs, every cook will tell you that.”
Martin Mull - Colonel Mustard

“Parsons McCovey was a casualty of war. The only difference was that this was the Cold War and he was a fucked-up junkie. There'd be no hero's burial for Parsons.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Bean: Where are you going?
- Kramer: Church services.
- Bean: Church? You? What for?
- Kramer: Vietnam's what for, asshole!”
Charlie Sheen - Bean
Ken Douglas - Kramer

“I miss the peace of fishing like when I was a boy. Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties. I widowed her the day I married her. My wife died while I was at sea, you know.”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius

“I wouldn't give you a gun if it were World War 3.”
Michael Gross - Burt Gummer

“- Trautman: You're the last of an elite group, don't end it like this.
- Rambo: Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job parking cars!”

Richard Crenna - Trautman
Sylvester Stallone - Rambo

“While the people of France lie bleeding, you sit around in your fine clothes trying to deceive me, when you're only deceiving yourselves. You say you are men of God. Yet, you do not see His hand in having guided me through 500 leagues of enemy country to bring you His help. Is that not proof enough? Do you still need more signs?”

Milla Jovovich - Joan of Arc

“The essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one, if we're to keep pace at all.”
Laurence Olivier - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

“- Atticus Noyle: Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patrol to command headquarters, what will be among the first of your duties that you'll undertake?
- Ben Marco: I'll recommend Sergeant Shaw for the Medal of Honor, sir. He saved our lives. He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.
- Atticus Noyle: Excellent. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Simon McBurney - Atticus Noyle
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco

“The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have come back, these Tutsi rebels. They are cockroaches. They are murderers.”
Hakeem Kae-Kazim - George Rutaganda

“- Robert McNamara: A blockade is technically an act of war; therefore we recommend calling the action a quarantine.
- Kenny O'Donnell: Let's hope that translates into Russian the way we want it to.”
Dylan Baker - Robert McNamara
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell

“Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!”
George C. Scott - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

“- Young Student: You can't stop it, can you? Even if you wanted to. Because it's not you, it's the system. The system won't let you stop it.
- Richard M. Nixon: There's... there's more at stake here than what you want, or what I want.
- Young Student: Then what's the point? What's the point of being President? You're powerless!”

Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Anne: I'm the new schoolteacher of Bourkassa.
- Lucien Cordier: That's a fine profession. A vocation, I'd say. Thanks to you, black children will be able to read their daddy's name on French war memorials.”
Irène Skobline - Anne - la nouvelle institutrice
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier