Quotes of people in your nation MK. IV

[Saurisisia]

"And this is why we drill only domestic oil... as well as on our allies' soil but only with their permission for us to do so."
~ Vince Cartwright, executive of the Coral Oil Company

[Ruridova]

"The two main incidents where Ruridova resisted foreign nationalization would be the Rabali nationalization of oil in the 1970s, which made do Scelba look like a stubborn fool and triggered an oil crisis, and Ruridova's attempts to prevent the nationalization of the Suez Canal, which nearly resulted in the loss of Ruridova's status as a superpower and drew both criticism and mockery from our enemies and allies alike."
- Leopold Dietkrech

[Bereia]

"Use of static offshore platforms is generally limited to waters of around five hundred meters in depth, and even then I normally don't use the things. Once the wells dry out, what happens to the body of the platform? It has to be left there, where it rots and harms the environment. We have long preferred mobile platforms, which is to say rigs constructed in a port, towed out to the fields in the sea, and sunk into place. They basically stay there until the well is not viable anymore, and can then be very laboriously floated and towed away in order to be scrapped or placed in a field in another part of the world somewhere. That is what we did with those rigs."

-- Nathan Carnes, Chairman and CEO of Carnes Petrochemical.

[Ruridova]

"Dedication to a cause I have no problem with. Being stupid enough to create a crisis because you don't know when you're wrong and should back down? There I draw a line."
- fmr. Minister of Energy Sigfrid Behring, 1979, telling Prime Minister di Scelba of his resignation

[Khongsiraem]

"The first principle of Aengsidthi is independence. No more shall we be dependent upon you or any other corrupt foreigner. It would be best for you to leave now, willingly, while you have the chance."
- fmr. Supreme Leader Sisavath Phoumsavanh, 1976

[Estainia]

"While largely academic in nature it is theoretically possible to do anything provided you have enough mana for the ritual to succeed." - Cornelius Maximilian, answering an inquiry about the practical limitations of magic; in the short form he basically said there are none.

[Bereia]

"I did not "create a crisis" by doing what I did. Were oil prices affected? Definitely. Then again, I would not have had to remove those platforms and stop drilling operations if they had honored the legal contract which they had freely agreed to before. My decision was a reaction to injustice, but of course you refuse to see that because I am an evil corporate executive."

-- Nathan Carnes, Chairman and CEO of Carnes Petrochemical, to a journalist.

[Ruridova]

"You may have your own opinions, Enrico, but you cannot have your own facts. Give it up, a admit that you messed up, and fix the problem your refusal created instead of exacerbating it."
- fmr. Minister of Energy Sigfrid Bwhring, to fmr. PM Enrico di Scelba, 1979

[The Grand World Order]

"TO THE VICTORS GO THE SPOILS, OIL WELLS" -Anti-government graffiti; refers to the fact that Griffith Victor was on the Board of Directors of Griffincrest Oil, a Blackhelm Confederacy-based oil corporation which is known for aggressively seizing oil fields from small countries that refuse to sell them, by way of their massive mercenary military; Grand Commander Athena inherited his shares

[Estainia]

"Why was it so bloody? We have long memories, and we will not be victimized or lay down to our own destruction again. If you come to us with a sword, we will draw our own, and you will regret the day you ever considered approaching us in hostility." - Gadol (Priest) Barra Ionatán, one of the few survivors of the 1996 'Holy War' in Eurasia between Taenists and extremist Christians that saw over a hundred people slain in sectarian violence throughout Euro-Asia, it was the largest group loss of death among the Darcsen people since the Darcsen Genocide during the Great War nearly a hundred years before.

[Senyosu]

I do not wish for unification, only the safety and peace of Senyosu and my people from conflict.

-Kaseda Todo (1512-1601)-

[Greater Mackonia]

"I'll let you in on a little secret, because fuck the government, Greater Mackonia is a bloody treasure trove of resources, some of the biggest diamond mines on the earth lie under Mackonian territory, Mackonia's forests have not been half as exploited as they could be and guess what...there is even a nice bit of oil here and there. But do you know why nobody can get these treasures? Well tsyr would you try and do business in Mackonia? Seriously?"

-Z.Maglos, while drunk, to a foreign businessman who had befriended him, said businessman was later shot by a local militia after an argument over land which allegedly contained huge silver reserves.

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"Zathranthrazhil is the epitome of creative chaos and euphoric destruction, there is no truth or lie, no good or evil, no right or wrong and no real or unreal THERE IS ONLY SALMON! THATS RIGHT SALMON!"

-Priest of Zathranthrazhil, "God" of Madness and Mackonia's "Patron Divine".

[Massena]

"We should head back now. It will be dark within the hour, and they mostly come out at night. Mostly."

~ A shaken German veteran of the fighting in the Ardennes in 1944. During that campaign Task Force Tikvah, the Republic's all-Jewish combat unit, kept up a routine of night patrols and raids intended to keep the Germans occupied and unable to rest. Horror stories of what the furious Jews did to captured soldaten kept many Germans awake nights.

[Greater Mackonia]

"The followers of Zathranthrazhil never claim him to be the "one true God", far from it, they acknowledge and celebrate his role as a deceptive and apathetic god of madness and trickery and consider themselves the only people clever enough to worship him for it. They don't claim the other gods are false, they just think the other gods are cowards,fools and jealous hypocrites who will eventually be cast down by their wondrous knight of insanity."

-Dr Vaeslavian.

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"Only when we are freed of the chains of reality are we truly at one with his esoteric glory and truly alive, you are all blinded by the phantasmagoria of lies that calls itself "REALITY". We are free from such flucid delusions of drabness. Now we must hurry as my spaceship is full of talking ostriches...or are they abscesses?"

-Hisses-at-Plugs, Priest of Zathranthrazhil.

[Cognigotoapagawayiagan]

"We should head back now. It will be dark within the hour, and they mostly come out at night. Mostly."

~ A shaken German veteran of the fighting in the Ardennes in 1944. During that campaign Task Force Tikvah, the Republic's all-Jewish combat unit, kept up a routine of night patrols and raids intended to keep the Germans occupied and unable to rest. Horror stories of what the furious Jews did to captured soldaten kept many Germans awake nights.

"Yeah, those squirrels are pretty vicious..."

-The German veteran's sarcastic friend who just realized that his friend was suffering from severe hallucinations.

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

"I believe in peace, compassion, and love everlasting as embodied by Christ."
-anonymous layman

[Grand Libertia]

“Love preached without hate, peace spread without war and other sword-less prophets with sword-less followers, those are things that shall surely ended in grave failure. Such is how our Lord see the world fit.”
-- Amadeus Knighton, cynic wannabe and today's avatar author.

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“The Lord has created men equal, for one purpose: as His eternal slaves, in their life and death. As you seen it's fit to rebel a tyrant, why would it be matter for me to usurp my Slaver and dethrone Him?”
-- Zachary Templesmith, trying to kill God by flying a plane into a large business center. Somehow.

[Ruridova]

"Any one of you who believes that all of Dansbruck, then or now, was or is national socialist is, quite simply, a moron."
- Nazi war criminal Feldmarschall Wolfgang Zähnemann at his trial, 1967; Zähnemann had fled to hide in Tierranueva in 1945 and Ruridovan and Idrissian intelligence forces made various attempts to hunt him down, finding him in 1964

[Auzkhia]

"Ottoman oil is cheap and plenty. If the Turks refuse to sell oil, then the government can cut off aid. But, Auzkhian North Africa offers a good supply of oil to us."
-An industrialist

[Bereia]

"Why? Why does it have to be me who says it?"

"Because you won...Mr. President."

-- Carlos Paige in his role as President James McClendon in the television series The Executive. In the scene quoted, he was agonizing about ordering an alpha strike on a foreign head of state's home in response to a series of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.

[Khongsiraem]

"Reconciliation, mercy, compassion, sympathy... these are diseases that are suffered by dogs, not men."
- fmr. Supreme Leader Sisavath Phoumsavanh, 1971

[Xekliv]

"Omae wa mou shindeiru."

-- Vortex Theron, in single combat with an elven inquisitor

[Estainia]

"A lesson in running a dictatorship can be found in Tropico 4, it's Nintendo Hard." - Stephen Jones

"I firmly believe that children need hope, so let them believe in Father Christmas, in the damn candy delivering rabbit and so on, because they need hope. Why? Because adulthood really fucking sucks." - Stephen Jones

[Greater Mackonia]

"Go out and move mountains!...or mount movements they are not dissimilar really"

-Zathanthrazhil, God of Madness.

[Ruridova]

"A lesson in running a dictatorship can be found in Tropico 4, it's Nintendo Hard." - Stephen Jones

"Quite enjoyable though. Nothing like announcing an election, rigging it, and then shooting most of your opponents."
- C.M. Tagliaferro