G. H. Hardy Quotes

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

War is the science of destruction.

Anybody can kill anybody.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War is about dead people.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

... merely another weapon.

When you go to war, it’s very important to kill the right people

How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy. How beautiful it is to kill and be killed.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

The bullet misses, the bayonet does not.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.