The Best August Walker Quotes

August: [to Ethan, while hanging off the wreckage of a helicopter] Why won't you just die?

August: Hope is not a strategy.
Ilsa: You must be new.

August: Hunt's the only friend you've got. You're only alive today because he didn't have the guts to kill you. Sloane was right. The IMF is Halloween. Nothing but grown men wearing...
Solomon: [Smiling nervously] What?
August: [Walker removes Lane's mask to reveal Benji] It's just the job. No hard feelings.

Solomon: [quoting from John Lark's manifesto] "There cannot be peace without first a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."
August: When I wrote those words, I wasn't referring to your peace or Hunt's suffering. The old world order needs dismantling, and we have the tools to dismantle it. All you seem to care about is that Hunt lives to take the blame. That's not anarchy. That's revenge.

Ethan: [Ethan confronts Walker in the elevator after Walker is revealed to be John Lark, and Walker holds Ethan at gunpoint] You can't do it, can you? Not until you get your plutonium.
August: No, he still has plans for you. You're gonna turn yourself in and admit you're John Lark, then watch the old world implode from your dark little cell.
Ethan: And if I don't?
August: [Walker takes out a picture of Julia with her new husband Erik, Ethan gasps in horror upon seeing the picture] I'm her guardian angel, Hunt. If I see you again, she dies. If you try to warn her, she dies. Know when you're beat.

Alan: I believe I've been given a choice to protect you or the IMF, which is why I'm bringing you in.
Ethan: And if I refuse?
Alan: [referring to Walker] What do you think he's here for? You think he's some observer? He's an assassin! Erika Sloane's number one plumber. You go rogue, he's authorized to hunt you down and kill you.
August: It's the job. No hard feelings.
Alan: Accept it, Ethan. You've lost this one. What's done is done.
Ethan: No, sir. No.
Alan: I am not asking you, I am giving you a direct order. This mission is terminated. Now!

August: [to Lane] Why do you have to make things so fucking complicated?

August: The name is Walker, by the way
Benji: Was the little car your idea?

[from trailer]
August: How many times has Hunt's government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside? How long before a man like that has had enough?

August: Is it true Lane gassed a village of 2000 people?
Ethan: Yes.
August: Is it true he brought down an entire passenger plane just to kill one man?
Ethan: Yes.
August: Is it true that he...
Ethan: Look, Walker, whatever you've heard, if it makes your skin crawl, it's probably true.
August: Holy shit. You're the guy that caught him, aren't you? How long do you think he's gonna keep that to himself?

[repeated line]
August: There cannot be peace without first a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace.