> "The thing that really struck me was that, all the time I was around to hear it, the Dark Lord when he killed people, or tortured them, or got other people to do either, always did it because it amused him. Or they'd annoyed him. Or they'd got in the way of his plans for world domination."
His voice dropped to a whisper.
"In the whole of Recent Events I never, once, heard the Dark Lord tell any of his victims that he was doing it for their own good."