Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Nobel prize in literature recipients on peace and war
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: All labor’s dread of war’s mad waste and murder
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: I saw a dove fear-daunted
Heinrich Böll: Every death in war is a murder – a murder for which someone is responsible
Heinrich Böll: I’m going to die soon and before the war is over. I shall never know peace again.
Albert Camus: Where war lives. The reign of beasts has begun.
William Faulkner: There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
Anatole France: Selections on war
John Galsworthy: Selections on war
Gabriel García Márquez: Five wars and seventeen military coups
André Gide: Transformation of a war supporter
Peter Handke: The horror unleashed by NATO’s first war
Gerhart Hauptmann: American politics and warships
Ernest Hemingway: Selections on war
Pär Lagerkvist: If such a thing as war can end
Selma Lagerlöf: The Fifth Commandment. The Great Beast is War.
Selma Lagerlöf: The mark of death was on them all
Halldór Laxness: In war there is no cause except the cause of war. A bitter disappointment when it turned out they could defend themselves
Sinclair Lewis: Selections on war
Maurice Maeterlinck: Bloodshed, battle-cry and sword-thrust are the joys of barbarians
Thomas Mann: Selections on war
Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war
Eugenio Montale: Poetry in an era of nuclear weapons and Doomsday atmosphere
Pablo Neruda: Bandits with planes, jackals that the jackals would despise
Kenzaburō Ōe: Categorical imperative to renounce war forever
Kenzaburo Ōe: Nuclear war and its lemmings
Eugene O’Neill: The hell that follows war
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
Salvatore Quasimodo: In every country a cultural tradition opposes war
Romain Rolland: Selections on war
Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die
George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war
Mikhail Sholokhov: Selections on war
Wole Soyinka: Civilian and Soldier
Rabindranath Tagore: Secure disarmament, transform it into strength
Mario Vargas Llosa: More than enough atomic and conventional weapons to wipe out several planets
William Butler Yeats: The Rose of Peace
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