Quotes of people in your nation MK. IV

[The Sanguinian Islands]

"Sex is like candy, you steal it from babies and it gives joy to children, but people try to stop you from consuming it."
~Catherine Maria Borovets-Little, during her 14th birthday

[Imperial Parthia]

"It's really a shame what has happened over the years. In exchange for increased power and glory, we had to march on the backs of those we once called friends..."
-Emperor Kuri Arsacid II, 93 AD.

[The Sanguinian Islands]

"The children think they are special, and that they are princesses, and they grow up with a kind of arrogance believing that they are different than anyone else, but in reality the only thing that sets them apart from anyone else is their delusions."
~Samte Gabstross, Master of the Senate

[Saurisisia]

"Why don't you play outside, kid? The adults here are talking.
~ Clawdius Ankylus, college student, addressing a bratty loud-mouthed child whilst playing online multiplayer

[Romandeos]

"The greatest expense and torment of capital punishment is not in the execution itself, which is quick and humane if done properly, as well as inexpensive, but in the waiting which occurs in most penal systems which have the death penalty today. A man can flagrantly commit murder, be tried and found guilty, then spend twenty years forestalling his lawful sentence with an incessant stream of appeals. Not so here. At the national and other levels, once sentence of death has been passed you have thirty days."

~ Rhett Niles, J.D., Imperial lawyer & jurist.

[Estainia]

"Yeah... You get charged with a heinous crime here? While it depends on the Lord, most are happy to dispose of you within a week and as expected of a totalitarian shitpit, there is no appeal." - Henry Wallace, All-Knowing Farmer

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"Does that work?"

"We don't know sir, unfortunately the Valkyries are well... Dead."

"Give it here."

"Yessir."

"Well then, so much for not working."

"That is... Duly impressive."

"We Yordanovs don't boast when we say we're descendants of Hlodia the Valkyrur Queen." - conversation between an Archaeologist (noted as the most dangerous profession in the Empire) and Lord Sevastyan Yordanov after the recovery one of the twenty-one Kyanos 'lances', weapons of immense (reality warping) magical power, in 2009, it's currently in his private armory.

[Las Palmeras]

"Yeah, Marxism-Leninism and Laissez-Faire have taught our nation important things.

One one hand, a majority of people will eventually bark and bite back at the hands that don't feed them. Leading to various different attempts to stop hunger through centralized plans. Unlike the colonial past, people are worth a lot in gold so long as they work; but their fruits of labor are administrated and distributed by accountants in the Gosbank whom get the permission of fat Party members in the Gosplan of the Legislative Politburo, as they argue with each-other and make a ton of inflating organizations with little to no reason to better their outcome: the result is miserable services that are barely bearable and shared material misery. The God of the State, the great provider, apparently only provides for its administrators in a decent way because everyone else must subscribe to the plan...OR ELSE. It's sad to see the ideals of a collective community of providing goodwill turned into a corporation of material greed and hypocrisy led by egomaniac onanists who claim to work for the people, and the thoughtful layperson could only shake their heads in disbelief at the monster they created.

But then Saint Reagan and the Good Apostles of Trickle Down in the un-empirical Austrian School of Pampered Overgrown Brats and Objectivist Fanboy 'Think' Tanks came and made everything better...well unless if you're an insane person with nobody to fall on, then you're just a crazy bum by choice, or a moocher...anybody who isn't a producer. Christian charity leaves a lot to be desired for the moochers and parasites, and there is little mercy in a world that worships Mammon while it 'prays' for Christ to magically do something. Considering this Earth has limited resources, and we're distributing them in an obscenely unequal way and in all due haste of self-destruction. But I'm sure that if the most productive get tax cuts, they'll eventually let go of their wealth. That'll be the day Pope Francisco is canonized by the Augustinians and Dominicans. It's sad to see the ideals of an cannibalistic invisible hand turning people into alienated degenerates who think they have a choice in a lobbied Politburo that are told they can move up the cannibal scale on a regular basis by being bold individuals in a world where everyone aspires to be 'individual', and the thoughtful layperson could only shake their heads in disbelief at the monster they created.

Yes. Our old folk who cling to their distorted Spanish Catholic-Amerindian-Yoruba faith have confirmed their truths to future generations. Living is agony. Death is a friend that avenges us from the indignities of living and makes the suffering a transcendent experience by dying. God must surely exist. God is a loving creator that invented death to reward the meek and oppressed as a merciful end, and a divine punishment for the strong that could have vastly helped if they truly wanted to by taking them from material success. Death truly is our friend. And eventually, Death rewards or punishes all."
-The Office Lady

[Dainer]

"Get over yourself and stop whining about guilt. This isn't about making you feel bad, because it isn't about your feelings. The people suffering because of your behavior don't give a shit about your fucking feelings, they just want you to change it."
- Geörge Ocoama, philosopher, teacher and one of the prominent voices of early Daineri politics.

[Xekliv]

"Æsir nornir
visa Vanir
thursamøyir
thrá valkyrjur
alvar dvergar
disir völvur
vordar verger
Yggdrasil"

-- Ancient religious xeklivian chant

[Fatatatutti]

"Bloop!"
"Wek!"
"Bloop!"
"Wek!"
"Bloop!"
"Wek!"
"Bloop!"
"Wek!"

-- the longest running joke on the hit TV series Alphonse and Fish, repeated at least once in every episode (note Alphonse quacking in dialect). The consensus among fans is that Alphonse and Fish will never agree about bloop and wek.

[Saurisisia]

"A standardized universal uniform may indeed be conformist, Private Snowball, but it is also the first step towards strengthening and enforcing ranks. Without uniform discipline, the only thing that would separate us from tribal warrior bands and the militias are our fancier gear."
~ Gunnery Sergeant Frederick Keswick to a New Equestrian recruit who asked a question regarding the standard uniforms

[Tellus Mater]

"Fall." - Unit 01, Osiris, Vagus Dei, The Wandering God, prior to destabilizing the orbit of Tellas IV, the (original) homeworld of the Tellan race and with it, obliterating the Tellan Imperium in a single instant. 085,000,000 years prior to the present day.

[Wisconsin9]

"Fall." - Unit 01, Osiris, Vagus Dei, The Wandering God, prior to destabilizing the orbit of Tellas IV, the (original) homeworld of the Tellan race and with it, obliterating the Tellan Imperium in a single instant. 85,000,000,000 years prior to the present day.

... seventy billion years before the universe existed?

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We could take the safe path, the one we have mapped out, with game and streams and the occasional supply cache. Nice and safe, get were we're going fast. Or we can go through the dark uncharted cave that nobody's come out of, in the hope of finding some monster inside and turning it into a coat. I feel like we usually go with the second one.—LittleBoyBlue, forumgoer.

[Xekliv]

"Fall." - Unit 01, Osiris, Vagus Dei, The Wandering God, prior to destabilizing the orbit of Tellas IV, the (original) homeworld of the Tellan race and with it, obliterating the Tellan Imperium in a single instant. 85,000,000,000 years prior to the present day.

... seventy billion years before the universe existed?

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We could take the safe path, the one we have mapped out, with game and streams and the occasional supply cache. Nice and safe, get were we're going fast. Or we can go through the dark uncharted cave that nobody's come out of, in the hope of finding some monster inside and turning it into a coat. I feel like we usually go with the second one.—LittleBoyBlue, forumgoer.

They could've come from another universe.

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"GLORY! FOR GONDOR!"

-- Anonymous citizen winning a game of Blood Bowl after 15 consecutive losses

[Tellus Mater]

It's meant to represent that records even for the Tellans that far back are spotty indeed (which itself comes not from their lack of effort but the fact the Tellan Civil War was... Horrific beyond words). It was 85ma years ago. They're not quite old enough to be from the 'verse before this one.

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"I come bringing tidings and good greetings to the peoples of----" - Last words of a field scribe who got punched into a mountain.

[Wisconsin9]

It's meant to represent that records even for the Tellans that far back are spotty indeed (which itself comes not from their lack of effort but the fact the Tellan Civil War was... Horrific beyond words). It was 85ma years ago. They're not quite old enough to be from the 'verse before this one.

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"I come bringing tidings and good greetings to the peoples of----" - Last words of a field scribe who got punched into a mountain.

Figured as much. You might wanna ditch that extra comma in there.

[Romandeos]

"No. If my rule has been just that will be a sufficient memorial. If it has not, then all the statues in the world will not hide my shame."

~ HIM Empress Taunja, when asked if a statue in her likeness should be built after her death.

[Greater Mackonia]

"Faith is Ignorance.
Hope is cowardice.
Charity is folly."

-Sakystrumaar Party Slogan.

[The Grand World Order]

"You're going to ask if what you're doing is wrong. You're going to think it is. But remember- you're wrong for the greater good of Our Federation. -David Hendermann, Senior Operator, CVRA; officially deceased ((transferred to Gedanke Polizei))

[The Grand World Order]

"You're going to ask if what you're doing is wrong. You're going to think it is. But remember- you're wrong for the greater good of Our Federation. -David Hendermann, Senior Operator, CVRA; officially deceased ((transferred to Gedanke Polizei))

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"... So during my third month with the Metiyapo people of the southern amazon basin, a rare bird not native to the area was found dead inside their encampment, which they took as an ill omen and threw an impromptu festival in order to appease their gods, they gorged themselves and then danced in traditional costume well into the night, until they were consumed by the rhythm, seeming to enter into a blissful, trance-like state."

"Wow... erm... You know... erm... In Egypt, Burger King is called Burger Pharaoh."

"You serious?"

"Yeah."

"Damn."

"Yeah."

"That's messed up."

"Yeah."

-Two Yorkshirens at a dinner party.

[Las Palmeras]

"There are islands full of people who are the epitome of physical beauty? The People's Republic of Las Palmeras has an opposite?

Well, we're not physically ugly. Ya get it?

Yeah, yeah. But this universe is ugly by the standards of the neighboring and parallel comic books and manga.

Hold on. I need to pull somebody over. *car stopping* Heey! What's all this then?!"
-Two traffic cops

[Greater Mackonia]

"Justice is what envious imps dress up their revenge as in order to give it some veneer of respectability."

-Saepnir the Purple.

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"Mackonian Tragedy is a proud theatrical tradition, while all are written in Tsajecek there is no clear bias towards Cat or Cyrzarii when it comes to 'ownership' of the form and its golden age was reached with the unity of the two traditions under Chalsophemo. However it is easy to see why it did not catch on abroad, a whole new meaning to values dissonance appears after even attempting to stage them in a Western theater. Let us take a bog-standard example, Naesiris of Seydaroth. Its main protagonist lies, cheats, bribes and blackmails his way to overthrow a democratically elected ruler (sometimes substituted for a mayor), sexually assault his teenage daughter and murder is infant heir...he is in Mackonian eyes 100% the Hero. No not an anti-hero, not a tragic figure: The solid heroic character who is referred to as such in the stage directions, script and author's notes. He is briefly captured and tried by the vengeful brother of the King; but outsmarts him in the last act through some genuinely powerful rhetoric...and manipulating the poor girl he had earlier abused into testifying in his favour.He then lives happily ever after. A slightly less extreme example would be The Unforked Lightening , it tells the story of a brilliant scholar who slowly alienates all his friends through his arrogance, refuses to admit his theories to be false when they are disproved by a young rival and finally retreats into the wilderness in despair where he kills himself to escape a fundamentally malevolent universe. His actions are genuinely seen as the purest example of nobility and heroism by Mackonians, in fact when some French intellectuals discovered the play and tried to paint him as some sort of neglected genius many Mackonian critics (Maglos allegedly assaulted Camus when the two met for plagiarising it) were gravely offended by what they saw as barbarism. A bit like how we felt when Mackonians go about trying to portray Jesus as some sort of oppressed misanthropic isolationist of their own liking, or Frodo Baggins as a villain-protagonist."

-Eleanor White, on Mackonian Storylines, in this context limited to Plays.

[Xhaan]

"Ahh, yes...you thought it would be easy killing those children.

You can't do much now."

Xhaanese Police Captain, upon putting a criminal's head on a pike.

[Las Palmeras]

"Montserrat Zorilla doesn't like country clubs. Country clubs don't like her much. And she fits in like a sore thumb when some foolhardy member of the Judicial branch or Legislative Politburo invite her, or when the estranged Spanish side of the family bring her along.

They know very well she's an overgrown Party member. She 'wised up' because she and her cohorts want to turn the PRLP into a Soft Power with a free economy as little more than a tool of conquest. They're still borderline nationalists with a xenophobic streak risen by Cold War paranoia and a latent anti-Western sentiment."
-Anonymous aide

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"The relation and views of Montserrat Zorilla and her faction of the Liberal Democratic People's Party towards the USA and the EU could be considered an embodiment of the darker side of Las Palmeras.

The LDPP was formed in 1980 after the 1978 Reforms as a primary opponent of the then undisputed Social Democratic Party and Socialist Party that themselves overthrew the original 'Old' Party. And in a broadly similar fashion to the 1975 Canberra Coup in Australia, the right-wink LDPP won a tricky election. The LDPP was also a proponent of the North American and Caribbean Free Trade Act; in which the PRLP benefited. However the traditionalist LDPP separated in to the Liberal Party. Economically the same thing but without the Cold War 'cultural traditionalism' and with less God.

Montserrat Zorilla subscribes to the first, the LDPP. Center-right policies, and justice to social contracts where a government avoids interfering with the Invisible Hand when deemed possible to do so. Strong social values of Cold War-era sense of civic duty and cooperative solidarity between people like in the traditional collectivist values of this country's culture; along with filial piety, self sacrifice, 'productive' heterosexual marriage, cousin incest-shaming, and the praise of family and group work accomplishments and needs over individual needs and accomplishments in an environment of patriotism.

As Mr. Misamune of Senyosu would put it, you can just feel the cognitive dissonance when somebody in the above-mentioned group gasps at the imported American and West European norms of what they perceive as selfishness, self-indulgence and general insolence.

That and despite the fact that the NACFTA bettered the general view of the US with younger generations through the far bettered diplomatic relations and heightened standards of living though trade and investment, the older ones are still more prone to look at the Northern neighbor with suspicion and likewise see Europe as Uncle Sam's toady and crony. Not to mention the historical past of Imperialism. I betcha nowadays if you tell a layperson what the think of the US they'll give it a thumbs up or a so-so hand symbol. Their parents may give them a sneer or a so-so sign. And their grandparents will most definitely sneer.

Though China and Russia were and are local bullies, and ironically enough, though they are rivals...the two also have 'special' relations with the West. And because the two spent tonnes in ideological aid and infrastructural support due to our strategic position, and were also Soft Powers in here, their brand of anti-West xenophobia rubbed off as well. For which locals here could also understand the hypocritical Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Or feel the Chinese '100 years of humiliation' with our '400 years of humiliation'. Or sympathize with Indochina's fight against the French and Americans and India's bombing of Portuguese ports, or even agree with our Cold War involvements in Post-Colonial Africa, like in the Congo and Angola.

This does leave a legacy to the day, seeing as how the human rights abuses of those two powerbrokers are minimized in international meetings, and the State has even gone so far as supporting China in Tibet. Russia is way harder to try to polish though, especially now."
-The Office Lady, on oxymorons