NationStates

"You must begin by gaining power over yourself; then another; then a group, an order, a world, a species, a group of species… finally, the galaxy itself."
-Unknown

"If you wish to have offspring, at least be sure you're in a tight, close relationship, preferably mating with them, beforehand. Don't like our social values? That is none of our concern."
~ Julius Quintus Publicus, Ordinary Citizen

"There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as sapient-kind... He was one of them. What more is there to say?"
-Z Moustafa, a wealthy immigrant or refugee, and owner of a great hotel.

"There's one of our strangest oddities: sexuality. It's strange in Latin America and unique among America on a whole. One would expect Spain's first and last colony in this continent to be very strengthened in terms of the Catholic dogma, but the truth is in order to be accepted Catholicism had to have lots of syncretic changes with more animistic religions that separated the divine from the concrete altogether. The result was a public persecution and shaming but a constant and private world of 'sin'. Homosexuality, though not common was not productive to make more labor, and as a result something indifferent. And a hole was a hole.

Free, we turned into a privatized plantation, also full of casinos and prostitutes. The Revolution, and we were assets of the Marxist-Leninist State. The Reforms and we were finally free, but the bedroom and dark and opaque places were always areas without law.

Following the 1980s, and an increased quality of life, it is obvious that families became smaller and they had the educational and material means to prevent unwanted conception...or these were too distracted by the wonders of IT, recreational centers of all kinds, clubs, and liberalized pornography to actually have material sex like the past. And people realized they could have more for themselves when they had less kids."
-The Office Lady

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"This study has been the subject of controversy for a while, however the decision of the National Committee of Education to put theoretical lectures and readings on female erogenous zones and masturbatory techniques in General Secondary Level Sexual Education has been approved.

This will teach young women more about their bodies, and will form individuals who have the capacity to realize that they do indeed have a choice in how to live their personal lives. These techniques are positive not only in terms of general health safety and biological knowledge, but also in psychological aspects in creating a confident self image that can learn to enjoy itself and release stress. Our great crusade is coming closer and closer, for starters, young women are equals to young men who also have a right to look for happiness in their personal lives. These women will be less likely to be confused emotionally and manipulated by partners, for they'll know the difference between physical pleasure and emotional love, both of which they have a natural right to as human beings. We will do away with centuries of oppression and induced guilt trips over our own bodies through ideological freedom."
-A spokesperson of the (Wilhelm) Reich Society of the PRLP

Augustine Rome wrote:"Here we have an example of a nation that has not come out of the Puritan 17th century yet, which is quite sad but entirely expectant of barbarians." - Aelianus Germanus, Political Commentator

"I for one see nothing wrong with a culture which encourages morality and self-control. If that makes me a barbarian, then I will carry that title with pride."

~ Presidential candidate Philip Chacon.

"They say that Americans live to work and Europeans work to live."
-Prince Regal Stallion

"I see nothing wrong with labor camps. If someone commits murder, rape, or any other heinous crime they should give back to society while serving their sentences."
-Anthony Regovishki

"I hope the economy doesn't collapse and make me lose my home"- man rushing to work

"Arrgghhfugyou"- drunken man being arrested by the police

"Mount Pele erupted again and dumped ash on my vacation home"- upper class citizen commenting on his house in the northern half of the island

"You coppers will never take me alive!"- criminal in a getaway van right before smashing into a wall at 100 mph

"I like candy"- some fat kid

"Clothes are an abomination"- nudist about to be bludgeoned by a disgusted mob

"Time for dinner"- middle class citizen sitting down with their family for oyster stew and crackers

"Peace, man"- dirty, useless hippie

"Screw you, nature"- man as Mount Pele's pyroclastic flows engulf his cabin

"Tenez la gauche. Links Fahren. Tenere la sinistra. Drive on the left."
-A road sign on the Auzkhian border.

"Never call the wrath of Heaven down on your fellow man. No man should hate his brother that much."

~ Father Armando Frye.

"If you became any more feminine, you'd be like an ancient, and then I'd have to leave you."

-Burþa Stác, to her boyfriend

"I am amused when the Zhong look down on us as though we are inferior. They may say that, but they will always be forced to remember, that in our inferiority? It took an army of two hundred thousand men to kill two women." - Bình Hồng Phan, MP

"Mother went to discuss inheritance with my grandfather....Watanabe Haruyuki...I was 12 and I hardly ever knew him, when my mother talked of him it was cautiously. They talked and argued about something in the distance...and...and I went in a room alone with him. All he did was stare, and I was getting very nervous, incredibly nervous...I felt so cold...and then he got up from the chair and got closer to me, and closer...But then the door opened and my mother yelled at that man infuriated. She grabbed me by the hand and we walked out, and I stepped in the car and we drove off. It was the last time I saw my grandfather. I don't know why but she really felt sorry. That was strange."
-Tomoko Zorilla, on her grandpa

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"Grandpa. My maternal grandpa died before I got to know him, and he was supposedly a harsh and serious man. My paternal grandpa was a mostly silent man, pale and shrived up, and his understanding of Spanish was limited to whatever grandma taught him. He looked so small and frail, drinking coffee and bread. Like his father before him, he lived in the Eastern Bloc as a Secret Police officer. He smiled as often as he talked, and always seemed not coldly indifferent...but perturbed...and still. He seemed as harmless as a mouse, and ate like one. I never imagined such a man, such a shadow, to be a fearful interrogator whose botched AVO relations led him to a job in the KGB."
-José Zorilla, on his grandpa

"Would you both kindly please be quiet about which continent is better, gentlesaurs? Otherwise, I'll have to expel you both from this building."
~ Vice President Patrick Ross to the British and Texian ambassadors over which was better: North America or Europe

"I find it funny that, no matter the political stance or religious beliefs, folks will always invoke the memories of totalitarian, genocidal dictators in order to smear those who dare disagree with them."
~ Rob Pearson, radio talk show host; he is, of course, referring to Josef Stalin instead of Adolf Hitler

We need democracy

"A rose is a rose by any other name, but this rose has been terribly envied by her planter...who wanted her to fade and eventually die from the inside out, being not even worthy of decorating her own grave. Roses are very beautiful because they inflict pain and protect themselves from it using their thorns."
-No Name

"In Saurisia and its predecessor states never had such a thing as 'divine right to rule', only that monarchs had the support of their gods if they upheld their values."
~ Then-Crown Prince Alcoris Drakmir

"The Universe is my God, the earth my temple, and living my goal."
-Anonymous citizen, describing his Pantheism

"We didn't know how to do it so we'd walk in circles, closely staring at the ground. And then we looked up and saw the Moon, and now everybody loves the moonlight. How did we exist without it? Now we can make love in the moonlight...but...there were clouds in the sky. So now, we should stare at the ground looking for the moonlight."
-No Name

"I am pretty sure Eris is and has been in The Multiversal Species Alliance."
-Prince Regal Stallion

"And that mechanical arm… revolting. A gentleman would have learned to fight one-handed."
-A citizen's thoughts on a swordfighter who used a cybernetic arm

"My favorite foreign song is Toryanse...because going in is easy, but going out is very hard. However, you may go in and pass through. That being said, this etheral plane is still my turf."
-No Name