Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"Endermen were just far too gullible."
12-8B commenting on Endermen giving technology to Earth

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

"I don't really mind people talking trash about me so long as they get shot afterwards"

- A citizen

[Auroya]

"There are two ways to view the universe: as it really is through the scientific method, or as we, with all our mental and psycholgical shortcomings, mistakenly think it or wish it to be."

--- Lady Evelyn v. Crimsonstein

[Cyeal]

"Humanism is a vile ideology, created by the superstitions of man being the ultimate pulpit of order and peace. It is in fact a blight upon philosophy, a blight upon ideology."

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-- Suzerain Tyiheva'l Arigletvois

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"In America, it is considered normal to cut into the genitals of infants... But not to question it."

-Prime Minister Florimel Bourne

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"Look at you. Europe. Not even a shadow to what has gone before. Your forebears would be ashamed."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"We're richer, healthier, freer, safer, we have a better standard of education, more economic stability, greater meritocracy, more advanced infrastructure, cleaner air... But we don't rule the world... I don't really know why that should worry us... There's no Yorkshiren flag on the moon, I suppose, but their is on the back of that watch you're wearing. Empires look cool on maps... they're no more desirable a place to live."

-Satirist Ezekiel Thromnosis

[Las Palmeras]

"Look at you. Europe. Not even a shadow to what has gone before. Your forebears would be ashamed."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"We're richer, healthier, freer, safer, we have a better standard of education, more economic stability, greater meritocracy, more advanced infrastructure, cleaner air... But we don't rule the world... I don't really know why that should worry us... There's no Yorkshiren flag on the moon, I suppose, but their is on the back of that watch you're wearing. Empires look cool on maps... they're no more desirable a place to live."

-Satirist Ezekiel Thromnosis

"Why not? It's worth a go and I heard winners write history. At Europe's height and in laizzes faire's finest hour only 60 million people died in colonies with much thanks to European ideological negligence and many shrug off it's implications in the current geopolitical structure. I'm sure you can blame the ENSO if you can't get away with it completely, and as a plus, it's more common than in Victorian times. Think of yourselves as crusaders on a mission to save Earth from overpopulation. Make your country's name so fearsome that future generations around the world will his it out as if they saw Satan himself. Make the world tremble with fear and respect as they look at your grand shadow. Go on and make Tagliaferro eat her words."
-The Office Lady

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"50 million is way too hyped for Stalin, that's closer to Mao. 8 million is still to nice and glossed though...making a semi-educated guesstimate and scrolling through various historians, I'd say 15 to 20 million tops which can be added more if you count his megalomaniacal leadership during the Second World War, there's near to one million extra if you count the Afghan invasion and probably dozens to hundreds of thousands though internal oppresion, once again guesstimating. Pol Pot claims about 3 million or more. The guys here were tame in comparison with about 40,000 executed...and nobody ever counts the African leaders because they just kill everybody regardless of a supposed ideology. Yeah, I'd say the Left is more efficient than killing that the Right, more than double the slaughter or negligence...but I'm only counting Capitalism's colonial adventures. "
-The Office Lady, unsure

[Imyoji]

Tagliaferro, Tagliobitch, Intaglio press. Endless drivel of self superiority and insecurity. Truly a case study for personality and neurology of behavior.

—Designer Tae Wén-hyōk

[Russkaya Imperiya]

"My ancestors smile upon me, can you say the same?"

"My ancestors were Cossacks who took pleasure in killing your kind. So yes, I'm sure I can."
-Conversation between a Polish rebel and an Okhranka officer prior to the formers execution, 1944

[Lunikia]

"There is no indication of any being above Man; the illusion of such is a direct barrier and poses a clear and present danger. It is not for nothing that Luna does not tolerate it."

--- Avita Niakah

[Bereia]

"The highest praise one with controversial positions and the will to express them publicly can receive is the openly declared hatred and denigration of their opponents."

-- Sean Steele, radio show host.

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"Pardon? My watch? It's a Movado, actually. I'm told that's Esperanto for "movement," or something like that. The company was founded in Switzerland in 1881 and later bought in 1983 by a man living in America who had fled the Marxist revolutionaries in Cuba in 1960. I think they're based in New Jersey somewhere now."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro, when asked about her timepiece.

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"Presently a U.S. Senator is paid a wage of about $35,000.00 a year, which is about what a Sergeant in the Army pulls down with six years of seniority. Now, if a man who goes into openly hostile locations and literally risks his life to defend others and uphold the ideals of the Republic can do with that and not complain, should our legislators honestly demand more?"

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Eldona]

"Your utter fixation on children's private parts is something that disturbs me deeply. Are you registered?

- ???

[Bereia]

"Equality doesn't last once the equalizers have the power to give themselves special privileges. This is why the impartiality of the Law must rule, and not man."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Lunikia]

"Oh, there's nothing wrong with ethical hedonism; it leads to a rather happy society as long as one does not forget things for it."

--- Lucia Asinia

[New Frenco Empire]

"Your utter fixation on children's private parts is something that disturbs me deeply. Are you registered?

- ???

"Then we're in agreement; the people of the prewar age were fucking creeps who felt the need to mutilate their children for no other reason than 'gawd'."

-Ygritte Kline

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"Presently a U.S. Senator is paid a wage of about $35,000.00 a year, which is about what a Sergeant in the Army pulls down with six years of seniority. Now, if a man who goes into openly hostile locations and literally risks his life to defend others and uphold the ideals of the Republic can do with that and not complain, should our legislators honestly demand more?"

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

That cannot possibly be true... That's like £22,000... Nurses earn more than that... In their first year!

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"I assume you'll follow that statement up by saying that CEOs of the companies you hold shares in shouldn't demand a higher wage than the guys who clean skid-marks out of the toilets?
Heck, I didn't want the guy performing my lung transplant to be earning £2.50 plus tips, I sure as shit don't want the guys administrating our entire country to earn that.
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. If the teen who works in the print-room is paid more than the guys running your country... Well... That may explain why you guys can only afford to pay your senior NCOs what is less than the minimum starting wage for a newly qualified teacher in this country."

-Doug Dimmadome, Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome

[-Costa Luna-]

OoC: It is admittedly entirely unnecessary, proper hygiene etc. It's still not exactly a civilized topic, now is it?

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"I am beauty, I am grace... Glory be to God, no... Glory be to me." - Queen Mónica Amador

[Bereia]

"The basic flaw of the Progressive system is that it is based, not on personal liberty and mutual trust, but on order imposed from above."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

[Imyoji]

All things call upon authority from some higher moral source. We've developed that way, so to speak.

—scriblings on a philosophy textbook

[Californiae]

"It is the pretense of our enemies who smile in our faces that they can isolate us, surround us in their puppets and 'allied states', so readily do they forget that we have no problem annihilating them, as well. So by all means, those who work in the dark to turn our friends into our enemies, I warn you, so called friends, the Federated States of California answers treason with one charge; death." - President Aurél Tímár

[Greater Mackonia]

"The pleasure of the masses is irrelevant in world-history. You can harp about 'healthier and wealthier' or 'socially advanced' all you like, but you have perhaps not accounted for the fact that we do not actually care about those things in the first place. Or at least how you care about them. I shall simplify this for you; I would rather 40 million of the mediocre suffered if a few thousand geniuses lived in prosperity. It is not the quantity of happiness that matters, it is its quality. I am hesitant to go into the realms of speculation but I would think a man who had earned his prosperity with the sweat on his brow and climbed from nothing would be a great deal happier than one who had had it given to him on a plate."

-Zilkas Soekthar-Mesok, Septarch* and Diplomat.

^{*New title for members of the Seventh-Sector}.

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"The only 'authority' a great man needs is his own intellect. The only 'providence', his own will."

-Z.Maglos

[The Blackreach virus]

"war for as long as we have existed we have seen war all of us by now have one wound caused by a bullet arrow you name it we been bleeden because of it we are strong we never surrender unless we know we are going to lose even then if the monarch is with us no surrender" general Ostugarin


folk song of war 1890
"i was walken to the express depot
i talked to the telegram officer
i said my brother was commen home
he said well you have the wrong station sir
if your brother is commen home he will be at the
passenger station i said you don't understand he is not on passenger he
is on express he is commen home in a coffin he is commen to us dead"

[Phisych University]

"Your utter fixation on children's private parts is something that disturbs me deeply. Are you registered?

- ???

"Uh, that depends. Who, what, when, where, why and how? Because, I'll admit, when I was forty something I had a very rude sense of humour and for the last time, Mr. Officer, I didn't know those were piglets. Yes, I wrote on the jars that they were baby pig dicks, but that was just to make Mr. Philips freak out more. Seriously, were they testing growth serums in that farm? Like, look at the pig dicks, they were the size of-"

"Nick. I think this unknown person is talking about human children."

"What are you, Charles, a speciest? Piglets are children to pigs. Delicious children in comparison to human children, but children nonetheless!"

"... Yes, Nicholas, I am a speciest. A computer can totally have opinions on species. Now how about you stop reminiscing on the past and get back to governing the University."

"Fine."

- Nicholas Phisych, Founder of Phisych University, and Charles, Artificial Intelligence and Chief Assistant.

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"It doesn't matter how much the politician makes, it's how much power he has."

- Clint Mokoena, Head of the Enforcer Corps.

[Ruridova]

Tagliaferro, Tagliobitch, Intaglio press. Endless drivel of self superiority and insecurity. Truly a case study for personality and neurology of behavior.

—Designer Tae Wén-hyōk

"Which one? The self-righteous and driveling antithesis of the diplomat, or the Ruridovan who may or may not be in a relationship with Josu Iñaki?"
- ATGNSMN

[Bereia]

"A barbarian is a man that looses his reason to feelings and desires. He looses what what separates him from animals. "

- Philosophy student, Maria Latt

"Actually, the word barbarian is derived from barbaros, which the Ancient Greeks used sometimes when referring to each other, but mostly when referring to other cultures. To the Greeks, every language and culture not of Hellenic origins was barbaric. Later, the Romans used the word in much the same way."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.