War quotes

“- Sgt. Elias: We're gonna lose this war.
- Chris: Come on. You really think so? Us?
- Sgt. Elias: We been kicking other peoples asses for so long, I figured it's time we got ours kicked.”
Willem Dafoe - Sgt. Elias
Charlie Sheen - Chris

“- Winifred Ames: Why Albania?
- Conrad Brean: Why not?
- Winifred Ames: What have they done to us?
- Conrad Brean: What have they done for us? What do you know about them?
- Winifred Ames: Nothing.
- Conrad Brean: See? They keep to themselves. Shifty. Untrustable.”
Anne Heche - Winifred Ames
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“I don't think you won it. We lost it - but you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago and now you have to pay the school fees again.”

Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“- Billy: What the fuck are you doing here, man? Do you believe in this war?
- Gene: I used to believe in all these wars.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Billy
Mel Gibson - Gene

“I reckon the folks'd be a slight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would.”
Clint Walker - Samson Posey

“I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.”
Woody Allen - Joe, the Narrator

“- Beta Alex: Wait a minute, what are you doing back?
- Alex Rogan: Are you kidding? It's war up there!
- Beta Alex: Oh, save the whales, but not the universe, huh?”
Lance Guest - Beta Alex
Lance Guest - Alex Rogan

“I love you so much. And I hate this war so much.”

Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund

“War isn't the way it looks back here.”
Lew Ayres - Paul

“What do I think about the U.S. involvement in the war? I think we should win it.”

Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother

“It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds, because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool. So when they were horribly wounded, it was our moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

The British in India will be slaughtered. Then we will overrun the Muslims and force their "Allah" to bow to Kali. And then the Hebrew God will fall and finally the Christian God will be cast down and forgotten.
Amrish Puri - Mola Ram

“Once again, the L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.”
Gary W. Cruz - Video Newscaster

The Battle of Isandhlwana was recorded in history as the worst defeat ever inflicted on a modern army by native troops. In parliament, upon the downfall of his government, British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, asked the question: "Who are these Zulus, who are these remarkable people who defeat our generals, convert our bishops and who on... (continue)(continue reading)

“I don't know what's worse: getting blown up in nuclear war or having a 7-11 on every corner.”
Christian Slater - Brian Kelly

“- Maj. Duncan Heyward: There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?
- Hawkeye: Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left.”
Steven Waddington - Maj. Duncan Heyward
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“- Brill: In guerrilla warfare, you try to use your weaknesses as strengths.
- Robert Clayton Dean: Such as?
- Brill: Well, if they're big and you're small, then you're mobile and they're slow. You're hidden and they're exposed. You only fight battles you know you can win. That's the way the Vietcong did it. You capture their weapons and you use...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gabriel Byrne - Brill
Will Smith - Robert Clayton Dean

“- Terry The Toad: That's great, man, that's really great. You know what I'm going to do for you? I'm going to capture you a VC flag.
- John Milner: Don't so that man, just come back alive.”
Charles Martin Smith - Terry the Toad
Paul Le Mat - John Milner

“I know a man who made an anti-war movie... a good one. When it was shown in his home town, army enlistment went up six hundred percent. I'm trying to convince the world with my movie that there is a reasonable and better way of getting home for Thanksgiving.”
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die.”
Michael Ironside - Jean Rasczak

“This war's become very confusing. Nobody... nobody wants to fight in it. Nobody seems to want to win it. Maybe it never should have happened, but people do die in it.”

Brad Johnson - Lt. Jake 'Cool Hand' Grafton

“War brings out the worst in people.”
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

“- Vic Ajax: Hello, Colonel. How are you this evening?
- Colonel Rodgers: Adequate. One mother-lovin' hell of a storm comin.' Know how I can tell? Steel plate in my head. Yes sir, Korea was no picnic.”
Reed Birney - Vic Ajax
Emil Sitka - Colonel Rodgers

“- Sister Margaretta: Reverend Mother, I have sinned.
- Sister Berthe: I, too, Reverend Mother.
- Mother Abbess: What is this sin, my children?
[the nuns look at each other, then reveal from under their robes the distributor and coil they have removed from the Germans' cars]”

Anna Lee - Sister Margaretta
Portia Nelson - Sister Berthe
Peggy Wood - Mother Abbess

“- Queen Elizabeth: You conceive it to be part of your mission to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court? Captain Thorpe, do you imagine that we are at war with Spain?
- Geoffrey Thorpe: Your Grace, Spain is at war with the world.”

Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth
Errol Flynn - Geoffrey Thorpe