War quotes

“- John Ashwood II as a Young Man: You know, Mother, I wasn't afraid.
- Susan Ashwood: I know.”

Peter Lawford - John Ashwood II as a Young Man
Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“The Cold War did not end, it merely shattered into a thousand pieces.”
Charlotte Rampling - Matron

“Gentlemen, I think if we lose this fight we lose the war, so if you choose to join us I will be personally very grateful.”

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.”
Donald Sutherland - X

“It's a new kind of war, George. A new war for a new century. I suppose this is the first time the enemy hasn't been in uniform. They're farmers. They come from small villages, and they shoot at from behind walls and from farmhouses. Some of them are women, some of them are children, and some of them... are missionaries, George.”
Edward Woodward - Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant

“I can't stand to hear that man talk! Half the time I don't even know what he's saying. 'This is not the end; it is possibly the beginning of the end, and it is certainly the end of the beginning': do you know what that means? If you ask me, the British should spend more time bombing Germany and less time drinking tea!”

Brenda Blethyn - Auguste Rottgen-van Pels

“- Adele Stanton: He would've stood up to them.
- Peter Appleton: Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides, I'm not Luke. While he was liberating Europe, I was running the PX. He couldn't wait to save the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- T.V. Interviewer: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?
- Mr. Helpmann: Beginners' luck.”
John Flanagan - T.V. Interviewer
Peter Vaughan - Mr. Helpmann

“I'm tired of it. You, me, all of it! We're all out there dying so they can stay rich!”

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“I suppose no man comes home from war. Not really.”
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad

“If you think that this war isn't changing you you're wrong. You can only circle the flames so long.”
Sienna Miller - Taya

“Sidney! No more fighting! No more war!”
Haing S. Ngor - Dith Pran

“War is always good for certain companies that are in the war. The business of war. If it wasn't for the oil, nobody would be there. Nobody would worry about it.”

Himself - Dr. Sam Kubba

“- Captain Joseph J. Blocker: You have never seen the look of war. You have no idea.
- Jeremiah Wilks: No.
- Captain Joseph J. Blocker: No idea what it does to a man. I've killed savages; I've killed plenty of 'em - 'cause that's my fucking job.
- Jeremiah Wilks: And from what I hear, Captain, there was never a man happier in his work.”
Christian Bale - Capt. Joseph J. Blocker
Bill Camp - Jeremiah Wilks

“This is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people, of all the people, and it must be fought not only on the battlefield, but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home, and in the heart of every man, woman, and child who loves freedom!”
Henry Wilcoxon - Vicar

“What's a war for, if not to hold on to what we love?”
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“Wars are not won by evacuation.”
Fionn Whitehead - Tommy

“- Blinkin: Master Robin, Is that you?
- Robin Hood: Yes.
- Blinkin: Back from the Crusades?
- Robin Hood: Yes.
- Blinkin: And alive?
- Robin Hood: [pause] Yes.”
Mark Blankfield - Blinkin
Cary Elwes - Robin Hood

“- Samir Horn: I've been in a lot of battles. And it may have seemed like a suicide mission at the time, but we always had a plan to come home.
- Omar: You must be willing to sacrifice some of your pawns if you want to win the game.”
Don Cheadle - Samir Horn
Saïd Taghmaoui - Omar

“I was born in a desert place. War was my only mother. As a child, I moved through the battlefield and slit the throats of screaming Russian boys. I firebombed my first tank when I was twelve-years-old and machine-gunned the crew as they fled, burning.”
Zoe Saldana - Aisha

“Well, we could have the Germans win the war.”

Lewis Milestone

“God damn you Walter! You fuckin' asshole! Everything's a fuckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?”

Jeff Bridges - The Dude

“Within hours we were fighting like Jackals for his corpse. The wars of the world had begun. Forty years, off and on, they endured, until we divided his empire in four parts. I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Old Ptolemy

- Corporal Upham: "War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man".
- Captain Miller: I guess that's Emerson's way of finding the bright side.
Jeremy Davies - Corporal Upham
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“Someone said this at some point about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me.”
Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg