Those in power say that without employing violence there can be no order, or decent life, meaning by the word 'order', that structure of life wherein the minority can indulge in excess through the labour of others, and by 'decent life', the lack of any impediment to leading such a life. However unjust what they say it is, one can see that they are able to speak thus because the suppression of violence would not only deprive them of the possibility of living in the way that they do, but would expose all the age-old injustice and cruelty of their life.

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