Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement with the world† Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.

-Moltke, Helmuth von, Count
  Letter to Dr  J K Bluntschi,11 Dec, collected in Helmuth von Moltke as a Correspondent (1893).

My theme is always humanistic. Life today is junglelike†it is complex, it is inhuman in its materialism.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonöA Biography (1995).