Iron Council Quotes

“When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought...'
'History...' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain’t godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn’t care.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“He befouled where he was with where he had been.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Časový golem povstal a byl, ignoroval linearitu kolem sebe, pouze byl.
Byl narušením, strašlivým proniknutím do sledu okamžiků, sraženinou v diachronii, která s nemyslící arogancí své existence nevěnovala tomuto zprznění ontologie sebemenší pozornost.

The time golem stood and was, ignored the linearity around it, only was. It was a violence, a terrible intrusion in the succession of moments, a clot in diachrony, and with the dumb arrogance of its existence it paid the outrage of
ontology no mind.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Chaverim,” he said to them. A category stolen from an old language. “Chaver,” they said back—comrade, equal, conspirator.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Through streets Cutter had once known now made strange by mortars, with neglected bunting in the colours of factions, with signs proclaiming idiot theories or new churches, new things, new ways of being, split and peeling. The raucousness and vigour were gone from the streets but still sensible in echo, in the buildings themselves: palimpsests of history, epochs, wars, other revolts embedded in their stones.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“If one death’ll stop ten, ain’t it better? If two deaths’ll save a city?”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“He thought then of what it would be. Of that moment when the dispossessed, the toilers, the, yes if she wanted, yes, the commonalty heard that the Mayor, the head of the Fat Sun, the arbiter of New Crobuzon, was gone. What that would be.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“History . . .” Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. “Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“A rage. Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war. Baron was”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Godspit and shit, Jack, don’t start with ‘the limits of individual action’ right now. I’m just tired. Sometimes, don’t you sometimes wish you didn’t care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain’t godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn’t care.” Fishday”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“A slick of vagabonds, petty thieves and their bosses, discharged foreign soldiers, discharged jailbirds, dissolute rich and tinkers, beggars, pimps and their charges, chancers, knife-grinders, poets and police agents.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“. . . and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very thought was quite absurd . . .”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“. . . and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“There was such noise. It came without remorse. There were always people everywhere. New Crobuzon.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“New Crobuzon again. Unceasing, unstintingly itself. Warm that spring, gamy: the rivers were stinking. Noisy. Uninterrupted New Crobuzon.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“The costumes raised memories of the Night of the Kinken Shards, when the New Quill Party had overrun the khepri ghetto in a storm of murder, shattering spit-sculptures in the Plaza of Statues, stamping the mindless males and butchering the women until they trod a ground of glass needles, ichor, blood.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“Sometimes, don’t you sometimes wish you didn’t care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain’t godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn’t care.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“The wax can make sound wait and recur. A new technology, the taming of time.”
― China Miéville, Iron Council

“They carry hoes”
― China Miéville, Iron Council