Quotes tagged ‘Vietnam War’

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

— John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Robert Duvall, imdb.com

“Louis: Don't accept all this death and then justify it. It is wrong! Your friends should be alive...they should be enjoying dinner, and arguing with their kids, just like you are. Jack: What do you know about it? Who the hell are you to say that?! Louis: [pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket] Yo…”

— Carol Black, Neal Marlens, John "Jack" Arnold, Dan Lauria, imdb.com

“Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today.”

— The Rolling Stones, open.spotify.com

“What is a Vietnamese's favorite color? Not Orange.”

— Zentavion, reddit.com

“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”

— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions, and Tigers alike—I would swap the who…”

— Spiro Agnew, azquotes.com

“Well, Black people have actually been in jail for four-hundred years here in America. But I don't worry about jail, I believe in Allah, I believe in Elijah Muhammad — as the messenger of god —and many great men have had to go to jail. So I don't pay attention to it. If the time comes, I'll have to g…”

— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com

“You are my opposer when I want freedom. You are my opposer when I want justice. You are my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight — but you won't even stand up for me here at home!”

— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com

“My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mo…”

— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com