270 Movie Quotes about War (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.

Quote from Troy

32 War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

33 Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see. Soldiers won the battle.

Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy

34 I've fought many wars in my time. Some were fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.

Peter O’Toole as Priam in Troy

35 Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

36 Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communications between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

37 Raise families, and strive for new and better societies, and fight terrible wars for what you know is right. It gives one real hope for the whole future of lifekind. Except, of course, we know it hasn't got one.

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

38 Declared war? There's no-one even living there. -Yes, but there will be one day, so we've left a sort of open-ended ultimatum.

Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

39 These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation, and nobody cares.

Billy Bob Thornton as Jigo in Princess Mononoke

40 Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)