Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and war
French writers on war and peace
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Henri Barbusse: All battles spring from themselves and necessitate each other to infinity
Henri Barbussse: As long as the colours of uniforms cover the flesh of men
Henri Barbusse: The awful power of a dead man
Henri Barbusse: Blood-stained priest of the God of War
Henri Barbusse: Butchery as far as the eye can see
Henri Barbusse: Crows eddying round naked flesh with flapping banners and war-cries
Henri Barbusse: The enemy is militarism and no other
Henri Barbusse: Flags and swords, instruments of the cult of human sacrifice
Henri Barbusse: The goddess of slaughter, the world worn out by war
Henri Barbusse: I will wage war, even though I alone may survive
Henri Barbusse: Jesus on the battlefield
Henri Barbusse: Manual laborers of war glutting the cannon’s mouth with their flesh
Henri Barbusse: The mournful hearse of the army razes harshly
Henri Barbusse: Murder enters as invisibly as death itself. Industry multiplies its magic.
Henri Barbusse: The only cause of war is the slavery of those whose flesh wages it
Henri Barbusse: “Perhaps it is the last war of all”
Henri Barbusse: Sepulchral sculptor’s great sketch-model, the gate of hell
Henri Barbusse: Soldier’s glory is a lie, like every other fine-looking thing in war
Henri Barbusse: “That’s war. It’s not anything else.”
Henri Barbusse: There will be nothing else on the earth but preparation for war
Henri Barbusse: These murdered souls, covered with black veils; they are you and I
Henri Barbusse: Torture…agony…human sacrifices…
Henri Barbusse: War, as hideous morally as physically
Henri Barbusse: War befouls the country as it does faces and hearts
Henri Barbusse: “War must be killed; war itself”
Henri Barbusse: War which breeds war, whether by victory or defeat
Henri Barbusse: War’s loathsome horror and lunacy
Henri Barbusse: “We must have a new Ministry: a new public opinion: War.”
Henri Barbusse: The world has come to the end of its strength: it is vanquished by wars
Henri Barbusse: “You understand, I’m against all wars”
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Maxim Gorky: Henri Barbusse and the mass of lies, hypocrisy, cruelty, dirt and blood called war
Frank Harris: Henri Barbusse and the war against war
Romain Rolland on Henri Barbusse: The isolated bleating of one of the beasts about to die
For peace, against war: literary selections 
I AM AN AMERICAN COLD WAR VETERAN CAPTAIN KAMANSKY AGAIN WANTING TO SPEAK SOME CURRENT TRUTHS ABOUT WAR. AS A STUDENT AT THE CLIMATE CHANGE COLLEGE AT THE CALIFORNIA DEPT. OF FISH AND WILDLIFE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIF AND HAVING BEEN A FIRST RESPONDER RESCUE AND RECOVERY TEAMRUBICON-USA IN THE FAR ROCKAWAYS , I REALIZE THIS TRUTH.. THAT HUMANKIND HAD BETTER START THINKING THE TRUTHS OF THE ESSAY ABOVE AND THE WISDOMS OF ROZOFF A RUSSIAN LIKE MYSELF AND SPENT ALL THGE GLOBAL MILITARISM MONEY ON MITIGATING THE HUMAN EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AS I WITNESSED THEM FIRST HAND AT GREAT RISK TO MYSELF THE FAR ROCKAWAYS, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK AS THERE WILL BE MANY MORE SUPER-MEGA STORMS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE AS DRIVEN BY CLIMATE CHANGE. WE AS A HUMANITY ARE FIGHTING THE WRONG WARS. GET RID OF THESE WARS AS ROZOFF SAYS AND FOCUS ON MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE THAT WILL KILL MANY MORE THAN EVEN NUCLEAR WARS AT MANY BILLIONS WITH DROUGHT AND FAMINE AND SEA RISE AND MEGA STORMS… LISTEN TO THE WISDOM OF ROZOFF ALL WORLDWIDE OF SUFFER THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AS WE WASTE OUR MONEY ON ARMAMENTS. CAPTAIN AND DR. KAMANSKY COLD WAR VET AND ARMY SURGEON
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