War quotes

“I think he'd probably tell you: the America represented in this room... is not the America he died defending.”

Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- Achilles: Of all the kings of Greece, I respect you most. But in this war you're a servant. And I refuse to be a servant any longer.
- Odysseus: Sometimes you need to serve in order to lead. I hope you understand that one day.”
Brad Pitt - Achilles
Sean Bean - Odysseus

“- Ace Levy: Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir.
- Sgt. Zim: Cease fire. Put your hand on that wall trooper. Put your hand on that wall! The enemy can not push a button... if you disable his hand. Medic!”

Jake Busey - Ace Levy
Clancy Brown - Sgt. Zim

“- Al Yackey: The hell with it. What this place reminds me of is the war in Europe.
- Pete Sandich: This is deep.”
John Goodman - Al Yackey
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Pete Sandich

“It's outrageous bombing innocent civilians. Why don't they stay at home? Things are bad enough as they are.”
Una O'Connor - Mrs. Emma Lory

“- Spc. Sgt. Hawkins: In those 18 months, how many times have you and your men taken a hill, village, or piece of ground only to return it back to the enemy days later?
- Sgt. Holt: So?
- Spc. Sgt. Hawkins: Don't you get it? They're not gonna let us win. Because if we win, the war stops and if the war stops, the money stops.”
John Cianetti - Spc. Sgt. Hawkins
Fritz Matthews - Sgt. Holt

“- Chicolini: I wouldn't go out there unless I had one of those big iron things that go up and down. What do you call those things?
- Rufus T. Firefly: Tanks.
- Chicolini: You're welcome.”

Chico Marx - Chicolini
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

I'm no good for back there any more, Kat. None of us are. We've been in this too long. The young men thought I was a coward because I told them that we learned that death is stronger than duty to one's country. It's not home back there anymore. All I could think of was: "I'd like to get back and see Kat again". You're all I've got left, Kat.

Lew Ayres - Paul

“Well, boys, this is it. Nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Rooskies.”
Slim Pickens - Maj. 'King' Kong

“War starts at midnight!”

Roger Livesey - Clive Candy

“War does funny things to men.”
Jason Schwartzman - Max Fischer

“I don't know what they've told you down at the USO, but you're going to be meeting a lot of strange men. Men in uniform. Boys a long way from home, lonely, desperate. They really have one thing on their minds. Show 'em a good time.”

Ned Beatty - Ward Douglas

“My father didn't keep me out of Vietnam so that I could die in my own high school!”
Gerrit Graham - Bob Spinnaker

“We're living in a world that's blowing itself to hell as fast as everybody can arrange it.”
Sean Penn - 1st Sgt. Welsh

“- FBI Special Agent Big Johnson: Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick?
- FBI Agent Little Johnson: [smiling] I was in junior high, dickhead.”

Robert Davi - FBI Special Agent Big Johnson
Grand L. Bush - FBI Agent Little Johnson

“We may have lost the war, but heaven knows we haven't lost our sense of humor!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“- George Bailey: And all's fair in love and war, right?
- Ma Bailey: Well, I don't know about war...”
James Stewart - George Bailey
Beulah Bondi - Mrs. Bailey

“War is waged by nations, but it is human beings who pay the price.”
James Callis - Menelaus

- Aldo: You think they're making this up? You think this is "War of the Worlds" or something?
- Cynthia: Look, did we help the Czechs, the Hungarians, the Afghans or the Poles? Well we're not gonna nuke the Russians to save the Germans! I mean, if you were talking oil in Saudi Arabia, then I'd be really worried.
Stephen Furst - Aldo
Alston Ahern - Cynthia

“His point is that there really is no peace. There's always some war, somewhere, with someone. And there are no winners or losers either. Just those who are still around to fight another day.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Andie: True or False: All's fair in love and war.
- Ben: True.
- Andie: Great answer.
- Ben: Good question!”
Kate Hudson - Andie Anderson
Matthew McConaughey - Ben Barry

“This is a war! A war between men and women. Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.”
Adrienne Barbeau - Dr. Kurtz

I asked for it. "To be heading into the inexorable... where no mother will care for us... no woman crosses our path... where only reality reigns... with cruelty and grandeur". I was drunk with those words. Well, this is reality.
Herbert Grönemeyer - Lt. Werner - Correspondent

“Is peace all you are interested in? The real war is in us. History is a symptom of our disease.”
Ric Young - Mao Tse-Tung

“- Ramsey: The sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
- Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
- Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
- Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Ramsey
Denzel Washington - Hunter