China Mieville Quotes

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Even if I win the belt, I'm going to be underrated. It is what is it.

I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

Discrimination is a disease.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.

If we're going to be treated like a bunch of bums on this side of the aisle, then say so.

Nice guys finish last

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defense, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement.

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it. So long as they tramp the streets, whose stones they lay, whose filth they clean, whose sewers they dig, yet upon which they must not stand too long lest the policeman bid them "move on"; as long as they go from factory to factory, begging for the opportunity to be a slave, receiving the insults of bosses and foremen, getting the old "no," the old shake of the head, in these factories they built, whose machines they wrought; so long as they consent to herd like cattle, in the cities, driven year after year, more and more, off the mortgaged land, the land they cleared, fertilized, cultivated, rendered of value; so long as they stand shivering, gazing thro' plate glass windows at overcoats, which they made, but cannot buy, starving in the midst of food they produced but cannot have; so long as they continue to do these things vaguely relying upon some power outside themselves, be it god, or priest, or politician, or employer, or charitable society, to remedy matters, so long deliverance will be delayed.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.