Favorite War Quotes
This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.
Itzhak Stern
Chef: Why do all you guys sit on your helmets? Soldier: So we don't get our balls blown off.
This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. *That's* cruel!
Amon Goeth
[voiceover] The horror... the horror...
Kurtz
We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig... cow after cow... village after village... army after army...
Kurtz
The truth, Helen, is always the right answer.
Amon Goeth
They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?
Amon Goeth
[voice-over] I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.
Willard
Soldier: There he is: War Horse.
Commander: There's something moving.
Soldier: Well, what is it?
Commander: It's a horse they found wandering about in No Man's Land.
Soldier: What kind of a horse?
Commander: A miraculous kind of horse, would be my guess.
Disneyland? Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland!
Lance
You can either surf, or you can fight!
Kilgore
