It stands to reason you’ve got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there’s an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and wars is for armies. That’s only plain common sense.’‘War’s finished,’ said Tristram. 'War’s outlawed. There hasn’t been any war for years and years and years.’'All the more reason why there’s got to be a war,’ said the driver, 'if we’ve been such a long time without one.
-Anthony Burgess
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