Thread:Shinigami of the North/@comment-142748-20141014184021/@comment-25093933-20141014222449

He said people change it all depends if the die or not before they do.

Light literally stated his goal was to make a perfect world with him as its new God in the first episode if memory serves correctly.

Actually he did have the perfect oppertunity with the war iwas considerably weekend and at that time the hokage could easily over power sasuke and destroy the village. and this is from the Narutopedia section personality.

"After being revived by Sasuke, his personality changed a bit. While he still wished that he could gain Sasuke's body, he acknowledged that he was too weak at the time. He also realised that copying someone completely was a mistake from his observation of Kabuto and displayed interest in Sasuke's "different path". Later, he felt sentimental over his failed candidacy for being Hokage, though this may be because he was in front of his master and the Fourth. Wanting to see Sasuke's path, he chose to fight alongside the Uchiha instead of ignoring Madara's war like he planned, and even made it a priority to heal Tsunade and the other Kage after their defeat before hurrying to the battlefield. Orochimaru also shows a sick sense of humour at the time, from using the memory of Sasuke stabbing him to convince Karin to aid the youth again to his comical method of threatening her and Suigetsu into cooperating to heal Tsunade. Orochimaru has also shown signs of regret, seemingly saddened by his childhood friend Jiraiya's death. Orochimaru does also seem to genuinely care about Sasuke's well being, as he originally thought it was best to take his time figuring out how to battle Guruguru but quickly decided against taking his time when Karin sensed Sasuke was on the verge of death." 