Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast
Results 21 to 40 of 50

Thread: 15 Famous Quotes About War

  1. #21
    Council Member SteveMetz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Carlisle, PA
    Posts
    1,488

    Default

    Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
    Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!

  2. #22
    Council Member slapout9's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    4,818

    Default

    Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men,who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influence,are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.-John Maynard Keynes

  3. #23
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    West Point New York
    Posts
    267

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
    Agree. At a memorial ceremony at Falcon in early 2006 for a soldier from a different battalion than mine a group of his platoon buddies were musicians and played Dylan's "Knockin' on Heavens Door." It struck a middle ground between Dylan's original version and the remake by GnR years later. As they were playing i glanced over at my CSM and tears were gently rolling down his cheeks. I lost it too.

    Every time i hear that song on the radio, especially these lines,

    "Mama, put my guns in the ground
    I can't shoot them anymore.
    That long black cloud is comin' down
    I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door."

    I think back to that memorial ceremony and that great fallen infantrymen and his buddies singing a memorial song to him.

    gian

  4. #24
    Banned
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Poulsbo, WA
    Posts
    252

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    Private Joker: How can you shoot women or children?
    Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!
    Oh my. You HAD to go there, didn't you:

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Joker, why did you join my beloved Corps!
    Private Joker: Sir, to kill, sir!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: So you're a killer!
    Private Joker: Sir, yes sir!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Then let me see your war face!
    Private Joker: [nervously] Sir?
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You got a war face! AHHHHHHHHHHH! That's a war face, let me see your war face!
    Private Joker: Ahhhh!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Bull####, you didn't convince me, let me see your REAL war face!
    Private Joker: AHHHHHHHHHHH!
    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You don't scare me! Work on it!
    Private Joker: Sir, yes sir!

    -------------------------

    Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?

  5. #25
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Posts
    567

    Default

    "I only went because I was drafted."

    My father in law.

  6. #26
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    West Point New York
    Posts
    267

    Default

    "Sir, there is a fine line between hard and stupid."

    Advice given by countless non-commissioned officers to their officers.

  7. #27
    Moderator Steve Blair's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2005
    Location
    Montana
    Posts
    3,195

    Default

    Home, far away. From the war, a chance to live again
    Home, far away. But the war, no chance to live again

    Iron Maiden - Paschendale
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

  8. #28
    Council Member carl's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    Denver on occasion
    Posts
    2,460

    Default

    "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."

    Gen. Nathanael Greene

  9. #29
    Council Member J Wolfsberger's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Michigan
    Posts
    806

    Default

    If you are able,
    save them a place
    inside of you
    and save one backward glance
    when you are leaving
    for the places they can
    no longer go.
    Be not ashamed to say
    you loved them,
    though you may
    or may not have always.
    Take what they have left
    and what they have taught you
    with their dying
    and keep it with your own.
    And in that time
    when men decide and feel safe
    to call the war insane,
    take one moment to embrace
    those gentle heroes
    you left behind.

    Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
    1 January 1970
    Dak To, Vietnam
    John Wolfsberger, Jr.

    An unruffled person with some useful skills.

  10. #30
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Posts
    32

    Default

    War in our days is more and more no longer a true fight but a mere extermination by technical means.
    Carl Jaspers.

    Only the dead have seen the end of war.
    Plato

  11. #31
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    489

    Default

    A few that I like:

    "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
    George Orwell

    "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
    Winston Churchill (this should have been read in 2001 and 2002)

    "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
    John Adams

    "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
    GEN Omar Bradley

    "War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either."
    MILAN KUNDERA
    "Speak English! said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you do either!"

    The Eaglet from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

  12. #32
    Council Member slapout9's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    4,818

    Default

    Well since there have been some tunes posted here I will have to just get into that. This is what used to be called protest music...but the Lady has a voice... so for your cultural enhancement and listening pleasure.

    Joan Baez-Marching Up To Freedom Land
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-np4Ke4o94E

  13. #33
    Council Member Mondor's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Virginia
    Posts
    64

    Default Inviting my Uncle to visit me in England

    Me: Uncle Bobby, why don't you have a passport?

    Uncle Bobby: Because the last time I went overseas people tried to kill me.

    Me: But Uncle Bobby, that was Vietnam.

    Uncle Bobby: Yep, but I'm not taking any more chances.
    It is right to learn, even from one's enemies
    Ovid

  14. #34
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Posts
    15

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
    Gotta go with Gian P. Gentile over Rank Amateur on this one. Dylan is better solely if you're in the dentist's office, riding an elevator, or in the frozen foods section of Publix. Tough to go against Sabbath especially when Dylan's weapon of choice was a simple acoustic guitar while Iommi wielded an axe...

    ...although after later reading Gentile's tribute to his fallen comrade, I definitely can see why he later agreed with RA...
    Last edited by Bodhi; 11-15-2007 at 12:56 AM.

  15. #35
    Council Member slapout9's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    4,818

  16. #36
    Council Member slapout9's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    4,818

    Default

    I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwqdB...eature=related

  17. #37
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Posts
    567

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Bodhi View Post
    Gotta go with Gian P. Gentile over Rank Amateur on this one. Dylan is better solely if you're in the dentist's office, riding an elevator, or in the frozen foods section of Publix. Tough to go against Sabbath especially when Dylan's weapon of choice was a simple acoustic guitar while Iommi wielded an axe...

    ...although after later reading Gentile's tribute to his fallen comrade, I definitely can see why he later agreed with RA...
    Dylan for lyrics only. Ozzy rules.
    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    Sometimes it takes someone without deep experience to think creatively.

  18. #38
    Council Member Ender's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Posts
    81

    Default

    "He is best who is trained in the severest school." -Thucydides

    "Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore, do not take lightly the perils of war." -Thucydides

    Terror can be endured so long as man simply ducks; but, it kills if a man thinks about it. -Erich Maria Remarque

    "To whom much is given, much is expected." Luke 12:48

    "The price of greatness is responsibility." -Winston Churchill

    "There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform." -Xenophon

    "Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything." -Xenophon

  19. #39
    Council Member TROUFION's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    212

    Default classic

    I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean...
    he'll see everything. He'll see the big board!

  20. #40
    Council Member
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    West Point New York
    Posts
    267

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by TROUFION View Post
    I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean...
    he'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
    Is this an implicit movie trivia question? Well I will take it as such:

    General Buck Turgidson speaking to President Merken Muffley in the War Room

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •