War quotes

“Every soldier in a war doesn't have to believe in what he's fighting for. Most of them fight just to back up the other soldiers in their squad. They try not to get them killed, they try not to get them extra duty, they try not to embarrass themselves in front of them.”
Joe Morton - Del

“That meteor is man-made! It's some kind of a germ warfare test they fucked up!”
Kevin Dillon - Brian Flagg

“This is war. We're soldiers. We kill to protect what's ours.”
Chazz Palminteri - Tony

“Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring.”
Edwin Hodgeman - Dr. Dealgood

“- Weps: Well, we don't know that for sure that's the whole point. That is why he needs time to confirm the message.
- Zimmer: That's the whole fuckin' point is that we don't got time! Radchenko is fueling his birds and why do you think he's doing that? Huh? Why? Because you don't put on a condom until you're gonna fuck!”
Viggo Mortensen - Weps
Matt Craven - Zimmer

“We're all scared, and why shouldn't we be? What do you think they're using in this war, water pistols?”

James Cagney - Eddie Bartlett

“Cadet Lewis Johns just taught you the most important lesson you'll learn here at Tuskegee. If you don't believe in God, you'd better find a damn good substitute.”

Courtney B. Vance - Lt. Glenn

“- Willis Powell: Just wanted you to know General, win or lose, you're some motherfucker.
- Gen. Lawrence Dell: Thank you.”
Paul Winfield - Willis Powell
Burt Lancaster - Gen. Lawrence Dell

“The war is the biggest business in America, worth $80 billion a year.”
Kevin Costner - Jim Garrison

“- Lou Peckinpaugh: You can pay, of course.
- Paul DuChard: Ah, monsieur, we, we're not wealthy people. We lost over four million francs betting on the war.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Who'd you have?
- Marcel: We took France - at eight to five.”
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh
Fernando Lamas - Paul DuChard

“Heinemann's already been up my ass so far I won't be able to sit down for a week. We're not winning this war.”
Kent McCord - Captain B. Pilgrim

“What is a demilitarized zone? Sounds like something out of The Wizard of Oz.”
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“- Ivan Korshunov: I know what you're thinking, First Lady. You want me dead. Well, it might come to that. In the war, people die.
- Grace: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman.
- Ivan Korshunov: You, who murdered a 100,000 Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas. Are going to lecture me about the rules of war? Don't!”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Ivan Korshunov
Wendy Crewson - Grace Marshall

“Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Derek Lutz

“- Kenny O'Donnell: You trade our missiles in Turkey for theirs in Cuba, they're gonna force us into trade after trade, until finally, a couple of months from now they demand something we won't trade, like Berlin, and we do end up in a war. Not to mention that long before that happens this administration will be politically dead.
- Robert F....” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Costner - Kenny O'Donnell
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy

“You find an edge, you gotta exploit that shit. That's why y'all sent all them motherfuckin' teenagers to Iraq. Die over some motherfuckin' oil money. Send the motherfuckin' CIA up in the hood with all the fuckin yayos. Slangin' in the hood man. It's the same shit in politics.”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“- The Humungus: Be still my dog of war. I understand your pain. We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way!
- Wez: Losers... losers wait!
- The Humungus: We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge.”

Kjell Nilsson - The Humungus
Vernon Wells - Wez

“- William J. Guarnere: Once we get into combat, they only people you can trust is yourself and the fella next to you.
- Joseph D. Toye: Hey, as long as he's a paratrooper.”
Frank John Hughes - William J. Guarnere
Kirk Acevedo - Joseph D. Toye

“That's one of the weaknesses of the military viewpoint: doesn't always recognize the importance of civilians in wartime.”

Harry Hayden - Doc Bissell

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like [sniffing, pondering] victory. Someday this war's gonna end...”
Robert Duvall - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

“The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered...” (continue)(continue reading)

Harold Baigent - Voice of Narrator

“Sometimes a little human collateral is the cost of freedom. To me, those people were war casualties, but to you they're just evidence.”

Jim Caviezel - Carroll Oerstadt

“You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people.”

Will Smith - Muhammad Ali

“Gentlemen, you will never make peace with Napoleon! Napoleon cannot be master of the world until he has smashed us up, and believe me, gentlemen, he means to be master of the world! You cannot make peace with dictators. You have to destroy them, wipe them out!”
Laurence Olivier - Lord Horatio Nelson

“- Maj. Reisman: [briefing the dozen] And kill any officer in sight.
- Victor Franko: Ours or theirs?”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
John Cassavetes - Victor Franko