Hacksaw Ridge * Quotes

Desmond Doss: "With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don't seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together."
Army Judge: "Private Doss, you are free to run into the hellfire of battle without a single weapon to protect yourself."

Tom Doss: "Did you figure this war is just going to fit in with your ideas?"
Desmond Doss: "While everybody is taking life I'm going to be saving it, and that's going to be my way to serve."

"I fell in love with you because I thought you were unlike anyone else."
[to Doss]

Dorothy Schutte: "They're saying you could go to prison."
Desmond Doss: "I don't know how I'm going to live with myself if I don't stay true to what I believe."

Colonel Stelzer: "What the hell is your delay, Captain?"
Captain Glover: "We're waiting, sir."
Colonel Stelzer: "Waiting for what!"
Captain Glover: "Private Doss."
Colonel Stelzer: "Who the hell is Private Doss?"

Sgt Howell: [referring to the rifle] "This is a personal gift from the United States government designed to bring death to the enemy."
Desmond Doss: "I'm sorry, sergeant, I can't touch a gun."

"Private Doss does not believe in violence. Do not look to him to save you on the battlefield."