We’re going out to save the world. It’s only right and proper that the people along the way should lend a hand, isn’t it? - David Eddings

Althalus took the child by the scruff of the neck and hauled him to the fire.
“I didn’t do anything!” the child protested in a shrill voice, struggling to get free.
“That’s probably because you’re too clumsy for this line of work."

The theorists make high-minded speeches. Their followers cheer and applaud—briefly—and then they get back to the business of appropriating everything of value.

A good soldier avoids politics and religion, but if all you want me to do is spank them and send them home, we’ll do it that way.