Young woman: If one is really pious, why should he care about materialistic things such as beauty and wealth?
Prabhupāda: Hmm? If one is pious, why he should . . .?
Young woman: Why should he care about things like beauty and wealth?
Prabhupāda: Oh. So war is not always impious. Do you understand? Sometimes war, fighting . . . so far, so far the Vedic conception of life is concerned, there are four classes, four classes: the intelligent class, the administrator class, the mercantile class . . . not only Vedic religion, this division is all over the world. There are four classes of men.
So for administrative class of men, it is a duty to protect the weak. Sometimes law and order requires violence. Just like the government maintains military, police force, because sometimes they are required. So when government employs some police force, some military force, that does not means impious. That is required.
Similarly, fighting or violence is not always impious. But a responsible person, he does not take violence unnecessarily. He considers things very nicely, and when there is no other alternative than to use violence, then he uses violence. Just like the government sometimes takes violence on the citizens. It is not the objective of the government