Quotes of people in your nation MK. IV

[Gorgashia]

"Y'know, it's funny. Most ritual dances are just symbolic, kind of fun, activities for communal and religious celebrations. According to our mythology, or, as we call it, ancient history, they used to conjure up storms and earthquakes."

"Really sucked our Gods undid that."

"We were using it to genocide each other..."

"Yeah, but I think we've learned our lesson."

"In the Socialist nation that still has mild racism problems?"

"Hey, those bloody Mountainmen used damn blood magicks. That shit is creepy."

"... I'm from the Mountains."

"... Well, this got awkward..."

"So... What else do you have to say about us creepy blood-magic users?"

- Anonymous Mountain and Plains Gorgashi. On Gorgashian ritual dances.

[Saurisisia]

"Court cases in Saurisia are certainly a sight to behold, considering lawyers are expected to speak their cases in thrilling over-the-top manners with a lot of exaggerated hand gestures and the masculine shedding of tears."
~ Andrew Stegocerios, stenographer

[Gigaverse]

"There is a loooooong way before he can stop tyrannical injustice everywhere..."

---Sergeant Aurelius Magnus

[Massena]

"Cruel and unusual punishment. God, but that term annoys me. Our standards are unusual, not this shit. Do you have any idea what prisons in most of the world were like even one hundred years in the past? Hell, even fifty years ago is a huge difference in places. Being sent to prison today is like a vacation in comparison to those times."

~ The Hon. Judge Uriah Morris.

[Autostan]

"I'm not allowed to speak against Autostan."
-Last words of Vladimir Doscheivi

[Wisconsin9]

'Why' is the most beautiful word in the English language.—LittleBoyBlue, forumgoer.

[Zhouran]

"Small but highly militarized nations on Earth are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than their corrupt leaders in power."

-Unknown

[Massena]

"Back when I first came into the force, my sergeant always told me if the day ever comes when you have to reach for that shotgun in the cruiser, you're headed for a citation or a funeral, maybe both. I guess this time, I'm just getting the citation."

~ Sgt. Lukas Oshin, Utica Police Department, after a violent shootout.

[Horizont]

"Terrankind, from its very conception, has sought to kill each other. Planet Earth has designed things especially with the purpose of wiping us out. We invented war long before we invented the wheel and we have been doing it to ourselves ever since. Every major invention has a military application first, civilian applications second. In the space of several centuries we have gone from armies numbering in the tens of thousands armed with pikes to armies numbering in the millions armed with machine-guns, drones, planes, tanks, nuclear submarines, battleships, power-armour. We are killing the only world we know, in order that we may move on and find other worlds to strip of their resources. We can discard our sense of self-preservation at will. We know total war whereas the majority of alien races do not. Our technological inferiority counts for little when we put our mind to it: in a hundred years we have gone from Kitty Hawk to Concorde; from knowing only morphine to a medicinal revolution in just a few decades; in ten years from Gagarin to Aldrin and Armstrong; in a mere two decades we have developed fission-bombs, in a few decades more fission-fusion bombs. When we venture out into the cosmos and stand united as the Terran Empire, who will truly be able to stand against us victorious? You can kill us, burn us, purge us; but we will always return, with a bitter venom and fury in our eyes, and with a loaded weapon in our hands: such is humanity."

--- Sybille Eisenstein

[Zhouran]

"Quite pretentious, isn't it? The notion their people is going to be interested in them for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and insecurity takes over."

-A Zhouranese teenager

[New Frenco Empire]

"If there's one thing we humans know, it's war. The xenos are in for a nasty surprise if they decide to fuck with us!"

-One citizen to another when the latter jokingly brought up aliens in the wake of the launching of the Garden of Eden

[Zhouran]

"Humans are very insecure people because they don't know whether the galaxy and their god like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them who they are. It's their identity."

-A study on human behaviour

[Horizont]

"We care not for approval, we care for ourselves. If we did care about what the galaxy thought we would not make it our intention to destroy it; we would try to live in harmony with it as to make it see us in a positive light. But we don't give a simgle damn about that, as you can see. Harmony... is a strange alien idea. They who follow this philosophy have chosen the path of weakness and doomed themselves. This is about survival of the fittest, and my duty is solely to ensure that we are the fittest."

--- Imperial Admiral Rosa v. Blutstein

[Gigaverse]

"Yes, you are messing with the Imperium. And no, you are not getting away with it."

---Sakahara Shinji, to an Esores Lotorum Incursitator Astartes

[Zhouran]

"There are two kinds of human pride, both good and bad. Good human pride represents their dignity and self-respect. Bad human pride is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of their very own conceit and arrogance. This is mainly because they feel small in a gargantuan reality of existence."

-A Zhouranese military officer from the ZPA Navy

[Gigaverse]

"You do not lord over our lives, and I know what is best for our people. Now, please, drop your cannons and weapons before we respond with violence."

---Grand Duke Archival, to a rather hostile non-assimilated state's delegation

[Zhouran]

"Permanent human superiority has never been realized by any nation on Earth in history. After the rise comes the big fall."

-A Zhouranese scientist on human studies

[Horizont]

"Do we claim ourselves to be superior? No. Biologically, physhologically and philosophically we are not. What we are, however, is self-interested; interested only in our species and nothing else whatsoever, because we have chosen the path of strength. Superiority is gained, not given."

--- Imperial Admiral Rosa v. Blutstein

[New Frenco Empire]

"The only think you need to know about them? They're an arrogant, condescending bunch. The only way to shut them up is with a Type 88."

-Anonymous Humanist*, 2450

*=Not in the secular sense. Human supremacists.

[Gigaverse]

"This seems like some good old dumb hypocritical arguments we've got here~!"

---The Eye Guy

"Are you telling me that the expansion of the new species' gene-pool is UNACCEPTABLE?"

---Random Adeptor Generum

[Zhouran]

"The different ness of all species, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Maybe one day we might work together to achieve peace, but that will never happen, as we all believe in different goals."

-A Zhouranese hardliner

[Horizont]

"The aliens waste time attempting to study us in the vain hope of harmony with us; but they know nothing of human nature, for if they did they would have exterminated us when they first contacted us. But they have missed this chance, and shall indeed now pay for it."

--- Imperial Admiral Rosa v. Blutstein, before ordering her fleet to perform an orbital barrage

[Gigaverse]

"Your heated argument... It scares me... Fuweeeeh..."

---That Loli Cat-girl with the Lollipop

[Zhouran]

"If they're not failing every now and again, it's a sign they're not doing anything very innovative. But then again, what have they done since the last millennia."

-A Zhouranese hardliner who strongly opposed peace

[Tolmakia]

"What have you got to lose right now? You're in the middle of a desert, and all your belongings are far away on the other side of the world! Though you may have millions stuffed in your mansions and cars, you're gonna die like a dog right here and no one's gonna notice!"

- Survivor to another survivor after their plane crashed in the desert