War quotes

“This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or... or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!”

Richard France - Scientist

I'd like to make an appeal in a special way to the men in the army. Brothers, each one of you is one of us. We are the same People. The farmers and peasants that you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear the words of a man telling you to kill, think instead in the words of God, "Thou shalt not kill". No soldier is obliged to obey... (continue)(continue reading)
Raul Julia - Archbishop Oscar Romero

“If you lose this war don't blame me.”

Buster Keaton - Johnnie Gray

“England is under threat of invasion, and though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship, is England. So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action.”

Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“War will make corpses of us all.”
David Wenham - Faramir

“On the western frontier of Missouri, the American Civil War was fought not by armies, but by neighbors. Informal gangs of local southern Bushwhackers fought a bloody and desperate guerrilla war against the occupying Union Army and pro-Union Jayhawkers. Allegiance to either side was dangerous. But it was more dangerous still to find oneself...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Col. Cal Rhodes: For years I couldn't sleep after Korea. My nightmares all had to do with the Chosin Reservoir. The ground there was so frozen, we couldn't bury our dead. We had to pile 'em on trucks and lash them up against the tanks. For years I'd wake up with those dead, frozen faces staring at me.
- Wilkes: Did it ever go away?
- Col. Cal...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes
Fred Ward - Wilkes

“- Private Ryan: Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard.
- Captain Miller: Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag?
- Private Ryan: You can tell her that when you found me, I was with the only brothers I had left. And that there was no way I was deserting...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matt Damon - Private Ryan
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Mrs. Wilkes: You have got no right to be here. It has taken me ten years to get that goddamned war out of his head.
- Col. Cal Rhodes: Looks to me like it's still in his head pretty strong.
- Mrs. Wilkes: Oh, that's very deep. Gee, where were you all the days he just sat for hours, staring at the walls?”

Jane Kaczmarek - Mrs. Wilkes
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“You drop a bomb, and it falls on the just and the unjust. I don't wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction.”
David Krumholtz - Isidor Rabi

“The next war isn't going to be a cold war, it'll be a shooting war, a ballistic war ; over a rapidly-dwindling eco-system. The last of the world's energy, drinkable water, breathable air.”
Henry Czerny - Eugene Kittridge

“The war between the sexes is over. We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise.”
Ryan Gosling - Jacob

“War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don’t.”
Dan Stevens - Matthew Crawley

“If you want to survive a war, do business with the side that's gonna win.”
Patrick Dempsey - Dylan

“In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and its people.”
Peter Cullen - Optimus Prime

“How doomed you are, Autobots. You simply fail to understand, that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...”
Leonard Nimoy - Sentinel Prime

“Odin-Do you not truly feel the gravity of your crimes? Wherever you go there is war, ruin and death!
Loki-I went down to Midgard to rule the people of Earth as a benevolent God, just like you.
Odin-We are not gods! We're born, we live, we die, just as humans do.
Loki-Give or take five thousand years.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Odin
Tom Hiddleston - Loki

“If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war it is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.”
Anya Chalotra - Yennefer

“These hands were once used for battle, now they’re but humble tools for peace. I need to figure out exactly who I am.”
Chris Hemsworth - Thor

“They say when a nuclear holocaust destroys the world, only the cockroaches will survive.”
Boyd Holbrook - Steve Murphy

“No one wants war, Carlito. Especially when they know they would lose.”
Wagner Moura - Pablo Escobar

“Everyone understands the nature of war. We also understand that victory depends on the cards that we have been dealt. Some, when faced with a bloody battle, simply give in. But for some, surrender is unacceptable. Even though they know it will be a fight to the death.”
Brenda Strong - Mary Alice Young

“The only way to guarantee peace is by making the prospect of war seem hopeless.”
Cillian Murphy - Thomas Shelby

“Men don’t have the strategic intelligence to conduct a war between families. Men are less good at keeping secrets out of their lies.”
Helen McCrory - Aunt Polly

“Gamora-I'm a warrior, an assassin. I don't dance.
Peter Quill-Really? Well, on my planet, we have a legend about people like you. It's called Footloose. And in it, a great hero, named Kevin Bacon, teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that, dancing, well, is the greatest thing there is.”
Chris Pratt - Peter Quill
Zoe Saldana - Gamora