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Reminds me of: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

This reminds me of: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." - Jean Rostand

Which reminds me of "a milion and one is still a milion", by a polish poet I forgot the name of.

He or she was talking about the deaths in siviet goulags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence as long as you are a state you are fine.

Plenty of current examples from all types of states.

as long as you're becoming a state afterwards, or more precisely - as long as you're a winner. Mandela was taken off terrorist list only very recently. Hamas being practically a state already, not a winner yet and thus is still a terrorist org.

I think you are misunderstanding the idea of monopoly on violence. It's actually most wonderful achievement and state of the art technique in limiting violence between technologically advanced homo sapiens specimens.