There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying “I wish” must say “I will.” And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.More Henri Barbusse quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.More Henri Barbusse quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I see too deep and too much.More Henri Barbusse quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.More Henri Barbusse quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if weMore Henri Barbusse quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]