While everybody is busy taking life, I’m going to be saving it. – Desmond Doss (Hacksaw Ridge)
Best Job I Ever Had. – Travis (Fury)
We’re airborne. We don’t start fights. We finish them. -Pvt Paul Galvan (Hamburger Hill)
When I go home people’ll ask me, “Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?” You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is. – Hoot (Black Hawk Down)
Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window. – Hoot (Black Hawk Down)
Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way. – Evermann (Black Hawk Down)
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent. – Wardaddy (Fury)
Keep the sand out of your weapons. Keep those actions clear. I’ll see you on the beach. – Captain Miller (Saving Private Ryan)
I broke my own rule. I started to give a fuck… and I brought you guys along with me. – Lt. A.K. Waters (Tears Of The Sun)
There’s nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer. – Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle (Pearl Harbor)
You remember it. Remember every bit of it, ’cause we are on the eve of a day that people are going to talk about long after we are dead and gone. – Destroyer Commander (The Longest Day)
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving. – Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)
War don’t ennoble men. It turns them into dogs… poisons the soul. – Private Witt (The Thin Red Line)
It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you’re at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it. – Sergeant Storm (The Thin Red Line)
War is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training nor the inclination for strategic thought. – General Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)
A brilliant man will find a way not to fight a war. – Admiral Yamamoto (Pearl Harbor)
At the next war let all the Kaisers, presidents and generals and diplomats go into a big field and fight it out first among themselves. – Katczinsky (All Quiet on the Western Front)
War is young men dying and old men talking. – Odysseus (Troy)
Only the dead have seen the end of war. – Screen Title (Black Hawk Down)
We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. – Joseph Galloway (We Were Soldiers)
Now. Move it. I’m going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world. – Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)
I told the Padre the truth, man. I like it here. You get to do what you want. Nobody fucks with you. The only worry you got is dying. And if that happens, you won’t know about it anyway. So what the fuck, man. – Bunny (Platoon)
A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory. – Louis Zamperini (Unbroken)
Payback’s a bitch and her stripper name is Karma. – Tyrone ‘Rone’ Woods (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi)
You’ll get it, though. You’ll get it. – Staff Sergeant William James (The Hurt Locker)
Can I be honest with you? I am bad fucking news. I’m not your friend. I’m not gonna help you. I’m gonna break you. Any questions? – Dan (Zero Dark Thirty)
They all want to be better nazis than Hitler. – Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist)
What are you going to do – shoot me? Shoot me. I would pay you to shoot my family! I would consider it a blessing! – Paul Rusesabagina (Hotel Rwanda)
No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or no matter how far you fall, you are never out of the fight. – Marcus Luttrell (Lone Survivor)
Every war is different, every war is the same. – Anthony ‘Swoff’ Swofford (Jarhead)
Even though I walk through the valley of shadow and death, I shall fear no evil. For I’m the meanest motherfucker in the whole fucking valley. – Meserve (Casualties of War)
Empty what is full. Fill what is empty. Scratch what itches. – Dieter (Rescue Dawn)
All these men here know they’re going to die. So, each night when they make it back, it’s a bonus. So, every cup of tea, every cigarette is like a little celebration. You just have to accept that. – Vassili Zaitsev (Enemy At The Gates)
Everybody thinks they’re gonna get a chance to punch some Nazi in the face in Normandy, but those days are over. They’re long gone. – Chris Burnett (Behind Enemy Lines)
Don’t say anything, just listen. I know our situation. I know it doesn’t make sense. But you need to hear this from me. I love you. Right down to the bone. Right down to goddamned fucking marrow. You need to know that. – Warrant Officer Ryan Sanders (Hyena Road)
Look for a flash, shoot at it! – Mike Strank (Flags Of Our Fathers)
Well, it’s just military psychology. They always train you for the desert on volcano.’ – Mike Strank (Flags Of Our Fathers)
A war story can’t be true unless it’s got some shame attached to it. – Matt Ocre (Sand Castle)
I’m gonna give you a little somethin’ you can’t take off. – Lt. Aldo Raine (Inglorious Basterds)
Never tell a soldier that he does not know the cost of war. – Lt. General Frank Benson (Eye In The Sky)
I feel a lot of distance, and I feel far away. – Michael (The Deer Hunter)
Now, an army is a team – it lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. – Patton (Patton)
One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have. – Bartlett (The Great Escape)
Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket. – Colonel Saito (The Bridge On The River Kwai)
Every man dies, not every man really lives. – William Wallace (Braveheart)
I always make mistakes when I’m dictating. – Adolf Hitler (Downfall)
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Tora! Tora! Tora!)
This war was *not* started for your private gratification, and you can be damned sure it’s not being run for your personal convenience, either! – Maj. Gen. Worden (The Dirty Dozen)
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. – General Broulard (Paths of Glory)
This is war! They don’t put low grades here! They kill! – Hohol (9th Company)
