War quotes

“- Henry Ford II: This isn't the first time Ford Motors' gone to war. We know how to do more than push papers. Go ahead, Carroll. Go to war.
- Carroll Shelby: Thank you, sir.”
Tracy Letts - Henry Ford II
Matt Damon - Carroll Shelby

“Washington is starting from a false assumption, and looking for evidence to support it.”
Patrick Wilson - Edwin Layton

“Pearl Harbor is the greatest intelligence failure in American history.”
Patrick Wilson - Edwin Layton

“- Queen Hippolyta: What is your mission?
- Steve Trevor: To stop the war!
- Diana Prince: What war?
- Steve Trevor: The war to end all wars! Weapons far deadlier than you can imagine! Whoever you are, you are in more danger than you realize!”
Connie Nielsen - Hippolyta
Chris Pine - Steve Trevor
Gal Gadot - Diana

“- Steve Trevor: We can't save everyone in this war. This is not what we came here to do.
- Diana Prince: No. But it's what I'm going to do.”
Chris Pine - Steve Trevor
Gal Gadot - Diana

“The Sioux once raided into Apache territory. Old-timers told me you can follow the line of their retreat by the bones of their dead.”
John Wayne - Capt. Kirby York

“War is bloody and soulless.”
Joel Edgerton - Falstaff

“Look, this is a modern war, ain't it? And I'm a modern guy, and the modern age is up in the air, not down here.”
John R. Reilly - Private Murphy

“If this War don't kill me first, my feet will.”
Wally Cassell - Private Dondaro

- Harmie: Me, I know what war is. When we was right close to Shadow Therry, the old Colonel, he brung us all together and he said...
- Tim: He said, "Young men, in civilian life, never brag about your conquests, whether they be love or war."
- Harmie: Shut up, young fella. I'm tellin' ya I know. And I know, I know.
Percy Kilbride - Harmie
Charles Kemper - Tim

“- Sefina Hobbs: My baby's come home!
- Luke Hobbs: I'm sorry to bring trouble here, Momma, but I need my brothers. This family is going to war. We're gonna need cars... and guns.”
Lori Pelenise Tuisano - Sefina
The Rock - Hobbs

“- Bernardo: War's a serious business.
- Giocondo: Such profoundity, Bernardo.”
Leigh Lawson - Bernardo
Nicholas Willatt - Giocondo

“- Mendez: If we shoot, we'll break twelve years of peace!
- Governor Kolp: Yes, it has been rather boring hasn't it?”
Paul Stevens - Mendez
Severn Darden - Governor Kolp

“A moral victory which compels the enemy to recognize the moral superiority of his opponent and his own impotence was won by the Russians at Borodino.”
Norman Rose - English Narrator

“- Alita: What’s outside the city?
- Hugo: Not much. The war wiped out all the utilities and most everything else.”
Rosa Salazar - Alita
Keean Johnson - Hugo

“To know them is to eliminate them. Consequently, the purely military aspect of the problem is secondary. More important is the policing aspect. I know you dislike that word. But it's the only one that describes the work at hand.”
Jean Martin - Col. Mathieu

“I will go alone into Rome. If I do not return by sunset, then let the army into Rome.”
Stephen Boyd - Livius

“I was born into war, bred into it. People think they understand pain, but they have no concept of it. What's the most pain you've ever felt? Maybe the kind that leaves you more machine than man.”
Josh Brolin - Cable

“- James, Earl of Moray: There’s no appetite for war.
- John Knox: Then let us stir an appetite.”
James McArdle - James, Earl of Moray
David Tennant - John Knox

“I feel that we’ve failed if we don’t face what war does, if we don’t face the human horrors and tell people what really happens when all sides try to obscure the truth.”
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“War is the quiet bravery of civilians who will endure far more than I ever will, of those asked to fight and those who are just trying to survive. Mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, traumatized families, bereft and inconsolable.”
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“It’s like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write, in some way, something that would make someone else care as much about it as I did at the time. Part of it is you’re never going to get to where you’re going if you acknowledge fear. I think fear comes later,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“Maybe I would have liked a more normal life. Maybe I just don’t know how. Or maybe this is where I feel most comfortable.”
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“- Sean Ryan: Hey, Marie. I need you in Palestine, not Sri Lanka.
- Marie Colvin: Sean, there is an unreported war there.
- Sean Ryan: Yes, because journalists have been banned for more than six years. I can’t let you go. ”
Tom Hollander - Sean Ryan
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“War is not so terrible for governments, for they are not wounded or killed like ordinary people.”
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin