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The Minister for Justice and State Security on the Council of England. Regarded as the “brain” of the administration, he is “impervious to public opinion.” He believes that “there are things about which nothing can be done and to try and change them is a waste of time.” It is Carl who tells Theo that mankind needs to be able to perceive a balance between the past, present, and future in order to survive, and that without hope for a future, “what does [anything] matter?”
Carl Inglebach Quotes in The Children of Men
The The Children of Men quotes below are all either spoken by Carl Inglebach or refer to Carl Inglebach. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12 Quotes
“You are a historian. You know what evils have been perpetrated through the ages to ensure the survival of nations, sects, religions, even individual families. Whatever man has done for good or ill has been done in the knowledge that he has been formed by history, that this life-span is brief, uncertain, insubstantial, but that there will be a future, for the nation, for the race, for the tribe. That hope has finally gone. Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.”
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When Theo brings the Fishes’ grievances before Xan and the other members of the Council of England, he betrays his past and present apathy. The Council, frustrated with Theo’s many complaints and demands, pushes back against him or attempts to deny or deflect their role in the creation of an indifferent, cruel, and self-centered society. When Carl Inglebach at last speaks up in the meeting, he berates Theo for not being able to recognize and accept the imbalance of past, present, and future that plagues the world—and the hopelessness of correcting that imbalance when there can be no hope for Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum
Chapter 33 Quotes
Carl looked down at the child with his dying eyes. “So it begins again.”
Theo thought: It begins again, with jealousy, with treachery, with violence, with murder, with this ring on my finger. He looked down at the great sapphire in its glitter of diamonds, aware of its weight. Placing it on his hand had been a gesture to assert authority and ensure protection. For a time at least he must take Xan’s place. There were evils to be remedied; but they must take their turn. He couldn’t do everything at once, there had to be priorities. Was that what Xan had found? And was this sudden intoxication of power what Xan had known every day of his life?
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The renewal that Theo and the Fishes—and, of course, the world—have all been waiting for has finally arrived in the form of Julian’s child. There is now hope for a future—if one child can be born, surely another birth, or several births, must be possible. However, Carl Inglebach’s reverent proclamation that “it”—human life, the hope for a future, the realignment of society toward goodness and order—has begun again is contrasted by Theo’s bitter thoughts on the bloody origins of this new world. He is confused as to what his own role will be—he is not the child’s father, and is Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia soluta itaque. Deleniti nisi earum. Ad tenetur laboriosam. Eu
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Carl Inglebach Character Timeline in The Children of Men
The timeline below shows where the character Carl Inglebach appears in The Children of Men. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 11
...and Recreation; Felicia Rankin, a distinguished lawyer, leads Home Affairs, which includes Housing and Transport; Carl Inglebach, Minister for Justice and State Security, is the most powerful member of the Council...
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Chapter 12
Carl Inglebach finally speaks; he launches into a tirade about the imbalance between humanity’s faith in...
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Chapter 13
...“too late” now. The only other person who could do the job, he says, is Carl, but Carl is dying. Xan confesses that he keeps the job because he’s never bored.
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Chapter 33
...approach Julian and the child. Harriet reaches out a finger, and the baby grasps it. Carl, moved, proclaims: “So it begins again.”
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