Iron Sunrise Quotes

“Like the bad guy said, never give an artist a Browning; they’re some of the most dangerous folks you can meet… Artists almost always want an audience, the spectacle of destruction. That name — Dadaist. It’s a dead giveaway. Expect a senseless act of mass violence, the theater of cruelty. About all I can do is try and keep him talking while you get in position to kill him. And don’t give him anything he might mistake for an audience.” --Charles Stross, “Iron Sunrise.”
― Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise

“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, Iron Sunrise

“he looked like an escapee from a reeducation camp for fashion criminals.”
― Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise

“Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.”
― Charles Stross, Iron Sunrise

“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, Iron Sunrise