This occurs by means of banning self-gratification. In the case of love/sexuality this relationship is obvious. Truth, also, cannot rely on the purely subjective evidence of experience – either in the process of perception or in a sort of intuitive apprehension of meaning. And power would hardly be able to fulfil its social ordering functions, so as to transfer selections and get beyond mere force, if anyone could use violence at any time.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 706