270 Movie Quotes about War (+ Sound Clips) - page 16

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about war, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

151 You should never make important decisions while you're upset. -You did, and American soldiers and innocent civilians are dead because of it.

Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger

152 Was it hard for you in the Resistance? -Very hard, but not as hard as it is now. -Darling, relax. Resistance is over.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

153 At first there was only news of the war, and the war went on for months. Slowly the months became years.

Penelope in Ulysses (1954)

154 Such wasted time. So many years. -So many years of our youth squandered in the savagery of war... lost in confused wanderings and in roamings.

Kirk Douglas as Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

155 But these wars have been endless. -Endless because you were too gentle. I would have fought these wars differently.

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

156 Hatred means wars.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

157 And yet the answer is simple. We must have no war.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

158 I know there is a law in life that blood begets more blood as dog begets dog. Death generates death as the vulture breeds the vulture.

Quote from Ben-Hur (1959)

159 While in the Army, did you have any experience in procurement? -No. -Purchasing of supplies, materials? -I didn't do any of that. I just dropped bombs.

Dana Andrews as Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

160 I've seen a couple of facts. I've seen a ship go down and over 400 of my shipmates went with it. Were those guys suckers? -That's the unpleasant truth.

Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)