Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

He took part in the work of the International Youth Congress (Paris 1933) and the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture. Life
The son of a French father and an English mother Barbusse was born in Asnières-sur-Seine France in 1873. He led the World Congress Against Imperialist War (Amsterdam 1932) and headed the World Committee Against War and Fascism founded in 1933.

Henri Barbusse (May 17 1873 – August 30 1935) was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party.