War quotes

“- Newspaper Editor: Why is it important, do you think, to see this images? Why is it important for you to be there? Right now you may be one of the only Western journalists in Homs. Our team has just left.
- Marie Colvin: For an audience for which any conflict is very far away, this is the reality. There are 28,000 civilians, men, women and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Haydon - Newspaper Editor
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin

“- Marie Colvin: The Syrian regime is claiming that they're not hitting civilians, that they're just going after terrorist gangs. But every civilian house has been hit. The top floor of the building I'm in has been totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. It is a complete and utter lie.
- Newspaper Editor: Well, thank you for using...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosamund Pike - Marie Colvin
Michael Haydon - Newspaper Editor

“- Pina: It's been two years now. How long ago that seems now. And how things have changed, though we were already at war then.
- Francesco: Everyone foolishly thought it would be over quickly and that we'd only see it on newsreels.
- Pina: When is it going to end? Sometimes I just can't go on. This winter feels like it will never end.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anna Magnani - Pina
Francesco Grandjacquet - Francesco

“- Young Student: You say you want to end the war, so why don't you?
- Richard M. Nixon: Change always comes slowly. I pulled out more than half the troops. I'm trying to cut the military budget for the first time in 30 years. I want a volunteer army. But it's also a question of American credibility, our position in the world.”
Joanna Going - Young Student
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“My name is Max. My world is fire and blood. Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause. As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy... me... or everyone else.”

“We break windows, we burn things. Cause war's the only thing men listen to! Cause you've beaten us and betrayed us and there's nothing left!”

Carey Mulligan - Maud Watts

“You don't win wars with niceness, doctor. You win wars with guts.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Col. Chester Phillips

My generation, we were born into war. Giant monsters attacked our world. We called them, "Kaiju". They came from the Breach, a gateway to another dimension, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Sent by an alien race, Precursors. We fought back, building our own monsters..."Jaegers". Giant robots, so big they needed two pilots. My father was one... (continue)(continue reading)
John Boyega - Jake Pentecost

“You can't have peace without a war.”
Eve Arden - Eve

“- Daniel Ellsberg: Wouldn't you go to prison to stop this war?
- Ben Bagdikian: Theoretically, sure.”
Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg
Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian

- Maj. Joe De Lucca: The war was made-to-order for you, Martin. You stole from both sides with equal grace.
- Shelley Martin Webber: Listen, which was the greater immorality? My petty crimes, or the war itself?
- Maj. Joe De Lucca: "Petty crimes"? You're lucky you weren't shot!
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca
Max von Sydow - Shelley Martin Webber

“I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.”
Peter O'Toole - Priam

“- Cohessy: Sir, what use is Euclid when the Germans are bombing everything in sight?
- Teacher: What use is Euclid? Without Euclid, the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky and dart from cloud to cloud and bomb the bejesus - out of the English, who deserve it after what they did to the Irish for 800 years. Euclid is grace and beauty...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Joe Huxley: We are holding fast at just a hair under 50 rads per hour. I thought that it would have diminished by now. I guess that means we're picking up fallout from... Titan missile bases in Wichita... wherever else out west. That's the way the wind blows - straight toward St. Louis.
- Dr. Russell Oakes: When will it be safe to move people...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Lithgow - Joe Huxley
Jason Robards - Dr. Russell Oakes

“It was the women who had the war, the real war. The women were left at home in the shit, not sitting in some sparkling plane or gleaming tank. There's no glamour for us.”
Susan Fleetwood - Rose

“- Russel Blaze: Come work at the mill. There's nothing wrong with working for a living.
- Rodney Baze Jr.: I saw a fucking baby with his fucking head cut off. I saw a fucking pile of feet in the middle of the street, and I had to clean it up. I gave my fucking life for my country. That's not work?”

Christian Bale - Russel Baze
Casey Affleck - Rodney Baze Jr.

“- Agu: Are you liking war?
- Strika: [Shakes his head].
- Agu: Hey, I'm asking you a question and you are not talking. Are you having family?
- Strika: [Shakes his head again].
- Agu: I am thinking about my mom... and brother... and my little sister.”
Abraham Attah - Agu

“Wakanda survived for so long by only fighting when absolutely necessary.”
Danai Gurira - Okoye

“In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity...” (continue)(continue reading)
Angus Macfadyen - Dupont

“- Janine Roth: Why did we send 150,000 troops to a country that did not attack us, and one-tenth that number to the one that did?
- Senator Jasper Irving: How many times are you people going to ask the same question?
- Janine Roth: Till we get the answer.”
Meryl Streep - Janine Roth
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving

“- Mason Weaver: Have you met Colonel Packard yet?
- James Conrad: Yeah.
- Mason Weaver: The guy's wound pretty tight.
- James Conrad: Well, he's a decorated war hero. That's the package they come in.”
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad

“- Captain Said: What make you decide to tell me about Crystal, my main man?
- Troy Barlow: Because we're both fathers.
- Captain Said: I'm not father no more, you remember? My son is dead now. Can you think how would feel inside your heart if I bombed your daughter?
- Troy Barlow: Worse than death.
- Captain Said: That's right. Worse than death.”

Saïd Taghmaoui - Captain Said
Mark Wahlberg - Troy Barlow

“The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angka are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive.”
Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

What chance do we have? The question is "what choice". Run, hide, plead for mercy, scatter your forces.

Felicity Jones - Jyn Erso

“I'm gonna dedicate my book to those who shot but didn't get shot, because it's about survivors. And surviving is the only glory in war, if you know what I mean.”
Robert Carradine - Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad