War quotes

“Let the weight of our loss fuel you. Let the weight of our dead embolden you. Let the weight of our hope drive you to victory. Can you do that?”

Liev Schreiber - Colonel Vosch

“- Meyer Lansky: We gotta get tough with Masseria and Faranzano. Only, we can't afford a war. They got armies; we don't.
- Arnold Rothstein: We got balls and brains; you got those, you don't need an army...”
Patrick Dempsey - Meyer Lansky
F. Murray Abraham - Arnold Rothstein

“Long ago, people in England sent their children by train with labels around their necks, so they could be taken care of by complete strangers in the country side where it was safe.”

Imelda Staunton - Aunt Lucy

“We fight together or we die together.”
Toby Kebbell - Durotan

“Technically, they're retreating. But strategically, they're advancing.”
Robin Williams - Jakob

“You want a safe job? Go ask the Czechs and the Poles and the Greeks. They were figuring on safe jobs. They're lined up in front of guns digging each other's graves.”

Sam Levene - Abel "Chips" Abrams

- Joseph Holt: Inter arma, silent leges. "In times of war, the law falls silent".
- Frederick Aiken: It shouldn't.
Danny Huston - Joseph Holt
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Mara: Why didn't you come back?
- Maj. Joe De Lucca: I'm sorry. The war got in the way.”
Sophia Loren - Mara
John Cassavetes - Maj. Joe De Lucca

“My status is 8-T- that means I go when the Japs are in the lobby.”

George Jessel

“The funny thing about war is it shows you who you are, not who you want to be.”
Joseph Julian Soria - Carlos

“We've had World War I, World War II, and now this Korean War—everywhere in America, in practically every home, there's some family with a veteran who was wounded. So I asked John, why does Gregory Peck have to have one leg?
”

Harry Morris Warner On Gregory Peck

“It's a war zone out there. They're destroying the city.”
Will Poulter - Krauss

“You can't show you're resolute without showing you are strong. And you can't show you're strong without blowing people up.”
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

“- Daniel Ellsberg: If the public ever saw these papers they would turn against the war. Covert ops, guaranteed debt, rigged elections? It's all in there. Ike, Kennedy, Johnson... they violated the Geneva Convention. They lied to Congress and they lied to the public. They knew we couldn't win and still sent boys to die.
- Ben Bagdikian: What...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg
Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian

“- Captain von Trapp: Berlin. They've offered me a commission. I've been requested to accept immediately and report to their naval base at Bremerhaven tomorrow.
- Maria: I knew this would happen. I didn't think it would be so soon.
- Captain von Trapp: To refuse them would be fatal for all of us. And joining them would be unthinkable.”
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp
Julie Andrews - Maria

“The World is built in a wall that separates kind. Tell either side there's no wall, you've bought a war. Or a slaughter.”
Robin Wright - Lieutenant Joshi

“It's so beautiful. Boy, what a world... it could be so wonderful, if it wasn't for certain people.”

Julie Kavner - Tess, the mother

“- General Bonner Fellers: So The Emperor does bear responsibility for starting the war?
- Prince Konoe: It's not a black and white issue, General.
- General Bonner Fellers: Millions of people died in his name. Your skies were filled with kamikazes. Atrocities were committed every day, as he expanded his empire - invading, conquering,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matthew Fox - General Bonner Fellers
Masatoshi Nakamura - Prince Konoe

“- President Nemerov: I ordered no such attack. You must not respond to this action until we have investigated all possibilities.
- President Fowler: Like you did in Chechnya? Mr. President, who is in control of your armed forces?
- President Nemerov: You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya!”

Ciarán Hinds - President Nemerov
James Cromwell - President Fowler

“I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!”
Trey Parker - Gary Johnston

“If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear. I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready. But if I had... if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?”

Jude Law - Inman

“This is a war. Sacrifice is what victory is measured upon.”
Dwaine Stevenson - Sammael

“All the money is made between the lines.”
Jonah Hill - Efraim Diveroli

“- Hank Marlow: Hey, what happened with the war? Did we win?
- James Conrad: Which one?
- Hank Marlow: Uh-huh. That makes sense.”
John C. Reilly - Hank Marlow
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad

“- Thor: You know, Father once told me that a wise man never seeks out war...
- Hela: ...but he must always be ready for it!”
Chris Hemsworth - Thor
Cate Blanchett - Hela