The spiritual state of those who employ violence, submit to it, and participate in it is that of strife. Instead of experiencing the natural and inherent feeling of love for their fellow men, all these millions of people carry only feelings of hatred, blame and fear towards all humanity, with the exception of the small circle of like-minded people to which they belong. They suppress all their human feelings to such an extent that murdering fellow men seems to them to be a necessary condition of the well-being of life.

The Law of Love and the Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy