Kasimir

"It used to rain here more often."

"Because you sacrificed people to the rain gods."

"Your system kills, too. You've not eliminated sacrifices, you've democratised them—everyone dies a little every day, and the poor and desperate are the worst injured." He pointed at one of the street cleaners. "Your bosses grind them to nothing, until they have no choice but to mortgage their souls and sell their bodies as cheap labor. We honoured our sacrifices in the old days. You sneer at them." 

—Two Serpents Rise, Max Gladstone.