War quotes

“- Cpl. Joseph L. DiNardo: This is insanity.
- Bill Hafner: This is effective. Charley's got this valley by the balls. Won't nobody step outta' line around here.”

Wings Hauser - Cpl. Joseph L. DiNardo
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“War is young men dying and old men talking. Ignore the politics.”

Sean Bean - Odysseus

“All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of four map segments...”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“Why do corpses have to pile up before people decide it's time to go home?”
Bill Paterson - Dr. MacEntire

“- Thornton Melon: All right. I'll say it. 'Cause Truman was too much of a pussy wimp to let MacArthur go in there and blow out those Commie bastards!
- Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I'm gonna be watching you.
- Thornton Melon: [chuckling to his classmates] Good teacher. He really seems to care. About...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rodney Dangerfield - Thornton Melon
Sam Kinison - Professor Terguson

“Vive la mort! Vive la guerre! Vive le sacré mercenaire!”

Jean-François Stévenin - Michel

“- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: Winowski, a little tall for a Jap, wouldn't you say?
- Winowski: Yeah, but those Japs are sneaky bastards, sir. You never know.
- Col. 'Madman' Maddox: You're right. Check him for stilts.”
Warren Oates - Col. 'Madman' Maddox
Ronnie McMillan - Winowski

“I'm a soldier, but in serving my country, I have betrayed my conscience.”

Tom Cruise - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Somebody once wrote, "Hell is the impossibility of reason". That's what this place feels like. Hell.

Charlie Sheen - Chris

This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that "this is about freedom! It's not about oil!". And nobody questions him, cuz they don't wanna hear the answer, because it's a lie!
Ned Beatty - Senator Charles F. Meachum

“Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.”
Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

“- Carla: Maybe we're having a delayed reaction to the trauma of being shot at like those guys in 'Nam.
- Connie: You can't say 'Nam Carla. You weren't in 'Nam. You have to call it Vietnam.
- Carla: Shut up Connie! I can call it what I want!”
Toni Collette - Carla
Nia Vardalos - Connie

“- Chuck: I still remember the war.
- Dave Buznik: Oh, yeah?
- Chuck: Yeah, I remember waking up to the sound of bombs dropping and children screaming.
- Dave Buznik: Oh, you were in Vietnam?
- Chuck: No... Grenada.
- Dave Buznik: Didn't that, like, last only 12 hours?”
John Turturro - Chuck
Adam Sandler - Dave Buznik

“You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.”

Brad Pitt - Achilles

“- Maj. Reisman: So what does that give you?
- Capt. Stuart Kinder: Doesn't give me anything. But along with these other results, it gives you just about the most twisted, anti-social bunch of psychopathic deformities I have ever run into! And the worst, the most dangerous of the bunch, is Maggott. You've got one religious maniac, one malignant...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
Ralph Meeker - Capt. Stuart Kinder

“They're war slogans. We remember the slogans, we can't even remember the fucking wars. You know why? That's show business. Naked girl covered in Napalm. 'V for Victory'. Five Marines raising the flag. You remember the picture 50 years from now, you'll have forgotten the war. The Gulf War, smart bomb falling down a chimney. 2500 missions a day,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

You have murdered our women, and our children, and bombed our cities from afar, like cowards, and you dare to call "us" terrorists? Now, we have the ability to strike back at our enemies. Unless "you", "America", pull all military forces out of the Persian gulf area, immediately, and forever, Crimson Jihad will rain fire on one major U.S. city... (continue)(continue reading)
Art Malik - Salim Abu Aziz

“- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: Secretary of the Navy gave me these.
- Capt. Danny Walker: What are they?
- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.
- Capt. Rafe McCawley: What do you want me to do with them, sir?
- Lt. Col. James Doolittle: We're gonna wire them to the bombs and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alec Baldwin - Lt. Col. James Doolittle
Josh Hartnett - Capt. Danny Walker
Ben Affleck - Capt. Rafe McCawley

“The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

- Senator Lane: The war's over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: "to the victors belong the spoils".
- Fletcher: There's another old saying, Senator: "don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining".
Frank Schofield - Senator Lane
John Vernon - Fletcher

“- Gabriel Martin: If we win this war, a lot of things will change.
- Soldier Occam: What will change?
- Gabriel Martin: They call this the New World. It's not. It's the same as the old. But we have the chance to build a new world. A world where all men are created equal under God.”

Heath Ledger - Gabriel Martin
Jay Arlen Jones - Occam

- Putter: Is that a boy or a girl?
- Lloyd: Girl, Joan of Arc. She dressed up as a man and led the French in fighting the English. She heard voices, "stop being a peasant", "France needs you", "the truth needs you". And she won, she beat the English, but then...
- Putter: Then what?
- Lloyd: The French, burnt her, alive!
Yeardley Smith - Putter
Keith Gordon - Lloyd

“Hannibal was mad, Caesar was mad, and Napoleon surely was the maddest of the lot. Ever since time began, they've called mad all the great soldiers in this world.”

Eduardo Ciannelli - Guru

“- Monica: I think I'd be great in a war. I'd, like, get all the medals.
- Chandler: Before or after you're executed by your own troops?”
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“- Chief Phillips: My orders say I'm not supposed to know where I'm taking this boat, so I don't! But one look at you, and I know it's gonna be hot!
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard: We're going up river about 75 klicks above the Do Lung bridge.
- Chief Phillips: That's Cambodia, captain.
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard: That's classified. We're not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Albert Hall - Chief Phillips
Martin Sheen - Captain Benjamin L. Willard