... Calling me a cunt. Calling me a cunt. You cunt. I’ll fucking kick ya. I’ll kick fuck out of to you. Kick to fuck you. Fuck you. Put your face on. I’ll fucking ... I’ll fucking ... burn ya ... Gangster No.1 ***** 2000 staring Paul Bettany & Malcolm McDowell & David Thewlis & Saffron Burrows & Kenneth Cranham & Jamie Foreman & Eddie Marsan et al, director Paul McGuigan
This war will never be forgotten. Nor will the heroes who fight in it. Troy 2004 starring Brad Pitt & Eric Bana & Orlando Bloom & Rose Byrne & Peter O'Toole & Diane Kruger & Brian Cox & Sean Bean & Julie Christie & Saffron Burrows et al, director Wolfgang Petersen
War is young men dying and old men talking. ibid. Odysseus to Achilles
For those regarded as warriors: when engaged in combat the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in the way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. The truth lies at the heart of the art of combat. Kill Bill I 2003 starring Uma Therman & David Carradine & Lucy Liu & Michael Madsen & Daryl Hannah & Sonny Chiba & Vivica A Fox & Gordon Liu & Julie Dreyfus et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Japanese captions & commentary
Where there’s war there’s opportunity. Blood In, Blood Out 1993 starring Damian Chapa & Jesse Borrego & Benjamin Bratt & Enrique Castillo & Delroy Lindo & Victor Rivers & Geoffrey Rivas & Tom Towles & Carlos Carrasco et al, director Taylor Hackford, Miklo
We are at war twenty-four hours of every day. Enemy of the State 1998 starring Will Smith & Gene Hackman & Jon Voight & Barry Pepper & Regina King & Ian Hart & Lisa Bonet & Jascha Washington & James LeGros & Jake Busey & Scott Caan & Jamie Kennedy & Jason Lee & Gabriel Byrne & Loren Dean et al, director Tony Scott, opening scene
Meinike: There will be another war?
Rankin: Of course. The Stranger 1946 starring Orson Welles & Loretta Young & Edward G Robinson & Philip Merivale & Richard Long & Konstantine Shayne & Byron Keith & Billy House & Martha Wentworth et al, director Orson Welles
Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. Gone With the Wind 1939 starring Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh & Leslie Howard & Olivia de Haviland & Thomas Mitchell & Barbara Mitchell & Evelyn Keyes & Ann Rutherford & George Reeves & Fred Crane & Hattie McDaniel & Alicia Rhett et al, director Victor Fleming, Ashley
In a world at war many sparrows must fall. The Fallen Sparrow 1943 starring John Garfield & Maureen O’Hara & Walter Slezak & Patricia Morison & Martha O’Driscoll & Bruce Edwards & John Banner & John Miljan & Hugh Beaumont et al, director Richard Wallace, opening caption
Spock: The mid-1990s was the era of your last so-called World War.
McCoy: The Eugenics wars. Star Trek s1e22: Space Seed
Well there it is – war. We didn’t want it but we’ve got it. Star Trek s1e26: Errand of Mercy, Kirk to Spock
I am just a Bajoran who has been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians all her life. So if you want a war, I’ll give you one! Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e2: Emissary II, Kira
In war both sides commit atrocities. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e3: Past Prologue, Sisko
He’s a war criminal. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e19: Duet, Kira
I helped liberate that camp. I saw the bodies. ibid. Kira
I admit everything. Why not? ibid. Cadassian prisoner
I hate him, Odo. ibid. Kira
What you call genocide I call a day’s work. ibid. Cardassian prisoner
I am your nemesis. I am your nightmare. I am the Butcher of Gallitep. ibid.
War. What is it good for? If you ask me, absolutely nothing. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s5e3: Looking For Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places, Quark to Grilka
Each day brings reports of new victories. The war continues to go well. The enemy is retreating on almost all fronts. It’s only a matter of time before the Federation collapses and Earth becomes another conquered planet under Dominion rule. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & War) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e1: A Time to Stand, Gul Dukat’s report
There are rules, Garak. Even in a war. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e2: Rocks and Shoals, O’Brien
War is much more fun when you’re winning. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e3: Sons and Daughters, Martok to Worf
Cannons to the right of em, cannons to the left of em, cannons in front of em. Volleyed and thundered. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e6: Sacrifice of Angles II, O’Brien
War is an inefficient business. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e4: Take Me Out to the Holosuite, Sisko to Romulan captain
Remember the 34th Rule of Acquisition: War is Good for Business. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s7e8: The Siege of AR-558, Dax
War can be an engine of change. War can transform a society for the better. Star Trek: Voyager s3e11: The Q and the Grey, Q
We’re going to war. Star Trek: Voyager s4e11: Scorpion II, Janeway
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. Bertrand Russell
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali
You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life. They’re plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That’s their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead. Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Reference
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press ... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence – death – is hidden from public view. Chris Hedges
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining ...
The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war’s refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless. Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Diable at Le Bon Dieu, 1951
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don’t want to be a hero. Tom Stoppard, Travesties, 1975
One to destroy, is murder by the law;
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands, take a specious name,
‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame. Edward Young, The Love of Fame, 1725-8