"Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets" — G. H. Hardy

"Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets"

— G. H. Hardy

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76 Quotes by G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer…
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This…
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of…
No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least…
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a…
As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics…
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the…
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. — Boris Yeltsin
The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about. — Alexander Suvorov
By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes! — Unknown Author
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....… — Ludwig von Mises
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets. — Ludwig von Mises
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line. — George S. Patton
Where the hell do you put the bayonet? — Chesty Puller
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight… — George S. Patton
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population… — Friedrich Engels

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