Along the way she'd acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents-God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn't count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)-and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so. (Charles Stross)

Along the way she'd acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents-God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn't count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)-and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.

Charles Stross

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