Henri Barbusse on War
1873–1935 France
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5 quotes
War kills wealth as it does men; it goes away in ruins and smoke, and one cannot fabricate gold any more than soldiers.
Light (1919)
Paradis says to me, "That's war."
"Yes, that's it," he repeats in a far-away voice, "that's war. It's not anything else."
Under Fire (1916)
Paradis, possessed by his notion, waved his hand towards the wide unspeakable landscape. and looking steadily on it repeated his sentence, 'War is that.
Under Fire (1916)
The emptied towns and the villages destroyed, they are a wilderness of our making. Yes, war is all of us, and all of us together.
Under Fire (1916)
Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.
Under Fire (1916)