War, Inc. (2008) - Quotes

Ooq-Yu-Fay Taqnufmini: What if we publicly remove one of his testicles?

Ooq-Mi-Fay Taqnufmini: Dad, please!

Ooq-Yu-Fay Taqnufmini: Shut up.

Hauser: That's not an entirely unappealing suggestion, but I'm not sure if that really gets us where we want to go.

Walken: [[freedom; [Carl von Clausewitz|Clausewitz; [Wikipedia:Tamerlane|Tamerlane; [Democracy; [War on Terror; [w:War on Drugs|War on Drugs] Wonderful opportunities here, Hauser, as long as these towel-heads don't actually look up "]" in the dictionary. But to use one of your home-spun colloquialisms: let's cut the shit, shall we? You know what your problem is, Hauser? You're a moralist! That's why you're so much fun to fuck with. War is the improvement of investment climates by other means. ] For Dummies. The U.S.A. is a subdivision of ]. ], the ], the ]: these are all focus groups, slogans for Tamerlane!

Walken: [[w:cholera|Vibrio cholerae; [w:Yersinia pestis|Yersinia pestis; [w:Bubonic plague|Bubonic plague] You ever wonder what the ideology of a ] bacterium is? Or the belief system of ], the bacteria that causes ]? Well I'll tell ya, Hauser: perpetuation! An infinite succession of generations, immortality on the installment plan. I wish I had that sort of esprit de corps, that bacterial team spirit... talk about legacy, talk about empire...

Hauser: It's going to be hard to torture someone who's mostly dead... but I'm gonna try to enjoy it.

Hauser: Marsha, get me Katie Couric, Al Jezeera and 100 gallons of sheep shit.

Hauser: Let's cut the shit, Walken. I like killing people as much as the next guy. But I signed up to kill the bad ones. Health clinics, trade unionists, journalists, agricultural co-ops, Catholic liberation theologians, impoverished Colombian coffee farmers - these are the barbarians, the depraved opponents of civilization? We turned Central America into a fucking graveyard. Whoever momentarily interrupts the accumulation of our wealth, we pulverize. I'm just not feeling good about that anymore, sir.

Hauser: Isn't it a little late to be worrying about international conventions? Is nerve gas any worse than getting your head blown off by a precision-guided laser missile? Frankly, it's a nuance that's lost on me.

Hauser: Did you know that the word "person" comes from the Latin word "persona" which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to ponder what lies behind. Each of us would be composed of a variety of masks. And if we can see behind the mask, we would get a burst of clarity, and if that flame was bright enough, that's when we fall in love. What is your opinion on these divine matters?

Hauser: [fills a tiny teacup with hot sauce] This is Donnie Lou's Fever Juice. It is rated at just under a quarter million Scoville units. Now, when I find the demands of life to be challenging, I take a "wee drop." The more challenging, the higher the Scoville units. But the trick, you see, that I've taught myself, is to never allow my eyes to tear up. One completely honest thing... if you really knew me, you'd despise me even more than you do.

Hauser: Look, we've already kicked the shit out of this place. What are we supposed to do, turn our backs on all the entrepreneurial possibilities? Business is a uniquely human response to a moral or cosmic crisis. Whether it's a tsunami or a sustained aerial bombardment, there's the same urgent call for urban renewal.