" Plenty of people didn’t care for him much, but there is a huge difference between disliking somebody—maybe even disliking them a lot—and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day. "

― Douglas Adams , Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)