Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall
Nick Nolte · 8 quotes
Private Witt
Jim Caviezel · 8 quotes
First Sergeant Edward Welsh
7 quotes
Private Edward P. Train
John Dee Smith · 4 quotes
Dead Japanese Soldier
2 quotes
Private Jack Bell
Ben Chaplin · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Private Witt & Private Edward P. Train (2)
The Thin Red Line quotes
Page 2 of 2One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it.
Property. The whole **** thing's about property.
Taken from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath ("Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." - Jim Casey, chapter 4)
Wars don't ennoble men, it turns them into dogs, poisons the soul.
We're living in a world that's blowing itself to pieces as fast as everybody can arrange it.
What difference do you think you can make, one single man in all this madness? If you die, it's gonna be for nothing. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this world. Just this rock.
Where's your spark now?
Why should I be afraid to die? I belong to you. If I go first, I'll wait for you there, on the other side of the dark waters. Be with me now.
You are not taking your men into the jungle, to avoid a goddamn fight! Now, I want you to attack, I want you to attack right now with every man at your disposal!
You attack hard and center! Go straight up that goddamn hill!
You're Greek, captain, aren't you? Did you ever read Homer? We read Homer at the Point. In Greek.