Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Fatatatutti]

"Due to the popularity of the prime-time soap The Fishingtons - and particularly the cross-over episode with the crime drama Cunliffe and Clitherow - FatatatuTV is introducing a spin-off in which family patriarch Tweed Fishington will be murdered every week. During the seventy-three year run of the show, Tweed Fishington has been on his death-bed for forty-seven years, he has been married twenty-nine times and divorced thirty-one times, he has been put on trial for murder nineteen times and acquitted eleven times and he has been murdered four times. (Some of these numbers are disputed by die-hard fans.)"
-- TV Guide

[Ashkera]

"Diversity is not a terminal value. It's blatantly obvious if you think about it for five minutes. If you idiots realized that, we could stop having these arguments and I could get back to doing my job."
- bureaucrat of the Complaints Ministry, admonishing some leftists

"Homosexuals are not a threat to the Ashkeran nation or culture, and by the time that they might be, we'll have vats to grow new citzens in anyway, so it doesn't matter."
"It's moral decay. It's unnatural."
"This isn't a Christian nation, in case you didn't notice, and this isn't a nation which accepts Nature as a justification, even if that were true. Get out of my office. Maybe someone else will bring me a real complaint."
- bureaucrat of the Complaints Ministry and a social conservative

"The purpose of the Complaints Ministry isn't to actually manage complaints, it's to act as containment for the state's ideological rivals."
- professor

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"If the MOAB was invented to scare terrorists, and the FOAB to scare Americans, the KOAB is there to scare the FOAB. Or not."

-WO Yu Tsuchida, UPlanAF

[Gigaverse]

"... Shokushu-dono...?"

"Don't give me that look."

-Ayame and Shinji Sakahara, on his Net account name change 「触手殿」 (Shokushu-dono - lit. Mr. Tentacles).

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

"So, uh, the rookies wanted the chance to paint that new hyperbomber HighCom got us a few weeks ago..."
"Yeah; I don't see much of a problem with that, but your face seems very foreboding. What of it?"
"Yeah, um, they kind of already painted the front of it..."
"And? Didn't they choose one of those biblical nose art pieces? Like David and Goliath-"
"That was the next hangar over. Come over here, and just... look at it."
"...Oh...
...FUCKING ASIATIC ART? ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?"
"No, I'm not, but do you or do you not see the blatant puss-"
"HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FLY INTO BATTLE WHEN WE HAVE THIS DEPRECATORY 'ANTHROFUCKERY' SHIT?"
"So I assume you already see much more than just the tits-"
"Those edgy bastards! Does this come off easily? What did they use for this!?"
"Industrial-grade hull paint, but-"
"DAMN IT TO HELL! WE'RE GOING TO BE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE ENTIRE GODDAMN ADRIEL!"
"Well, I mean, they did the artstyle quite well, and its an original char-"
"What did you just say? Did you just COMPLIMENT THEM?"
"Look, I know you like traditional war art, but that curvature-"
"You're a progressive sack of shit, you know that!?"

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Two Hangar Captains of the Nexumian Spatial Armada, aboard the AGNS Adriel.

[Nayba Collective]

Soldier A: "The f**k is that?"
Soldier B: "Looks like another Madlands creature. I'll send the feed back. Don't get too close, and whatever you do, don't antagonize it."
- first observation of any Nayba by forces from The City, 76AC

[The Grand World Order]

"It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to." -Grand Commander Athena Griffith, on her first birthday as Grand Commander- which nobody celebrated with her

The Spire is a very, very busy place- but moreso than that, the Office of the Grand Commander has traditionally been a crushingly lonely place.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"The Synkom is proud to say it has assisted in the destruction of countless iterations of Manila and the annihilation of innumerable versions of Cebu amongst others merely to preserve the Nine-Dash Line's undisputed legitimacy in every single iteration of China it encounters and incorporates where applicable.

Honestly using the same weapons we used in Kuzenvok in 1960 on some Philippine cities seems rather too heavy-handed and edgy."
-Zhu Minghua, Jinfangese representative in the Hexumvirate

[Xekliv]

"You have a fear of heights? Didn't you used to jump out of ships in high orbit?"

"And how do you think I developed that fear? That shit was crazy."

-- Canton Ulaid and Vortex Theron

[Stalenhag Sweden]

"Officer! Officer!"

"Uh... Yes, sir? Can I help you?"

"A dinosaur just ate my dog!"

"Oh. Uh... What kind was it?"

"I t-think it was a velociraptor! I didn't know they could even come this far south!"

"Hold on... Uh, this is Officer Englund, I'm at 53 Lagerqvist Road, I need a Jätteödla Unit here. There's a velociraptor in the backyard, should be considered dangerous."

"Ehm... Are you... Are you sure they'll be able to handle it?"

"Of course, sir. These guys are the best trained to handle the beasts."

- A resident of Hägersten-Liljeholmen and a police officer. Many Swedish police departments have their own dedicated Jätteödla Units.

[Las Palmeras]

"A group date?

Some friends invited me. One is seeing somebody foreign too and they recommend it.

You didn't seem the type to have much friends. But I accept, when and where will I be your imported accessory? I want to see if the other fellow is some pasty American geek.

How can the hearts of a people who live under the Equatorial Sun be so icy? Or does the Cold War still live on? Your mother seems brooding enough and your dad is from Eastern Europe, right?"
-José Zorilla and Tsuneko Nagi

[Ashkera]

"...did Councillor One just threaten to hold the world hostage over climate change?"
"I... yeah, I guess you could read the geoengineering precommitment that way. Wow, you're right, he's literally a supervillain."
- two men, United States of Elan

[Eclius]

"The victors right the history, frankly, if Orion Islands get forever lost in the history, no one would knew that we took extreme measures to get rid of them"
-Consul Polus suggesting the Inner Senate to use biological weapon during Eclio-Orionites conflict

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"Might makes right, but that only makes David wanna beat Goliath, and if he does, the phrase made by the first three words in this sentence can go f*** itself."

-Kentaro Tanaka, Gamindustrian Ambassador to Vietnam

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"Whatever nation that breaks a hegemony can inspire the world."

-Michael Armstrong, Gamindustrian Consul to Ukraine

[Hellofad]

"684 To Headquarters Gonna be making a traffic stop on a red and blue lawnmower with flame decals on the corner of Main and 16th. Why the fuck do I put up with this..." Trooper Greg Davis Belshaw State Police.

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"My girlfriend is wearing trainers for prom. My mum wore sneakers on her wedding. Your argument is invalid."

-Some British exchange student, about wearing Air Jordans to prom

[The PC Empire]

Kion ajn vi faras, pensu pri li - la Imperiestro - kaj via pado estos rektiĝis. -Propaganda in a newspaper

Translation: Whatever you do, think of him - the Imperator - and your path will be made straight.

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I've heard that rhetoric before. I'm calling bull on this. -Rebel

[Estainia]

"The weight of the world is not so crushing if you know how to delegate." - Tsar Alexander Yordanov

[Dameth]

True bravery is not not being afraid, it's keeping on even in fear. True strengh is not to keep standing, it's being able to raise up every time you're on the ground. True talent is not being born with a skill, it's working endlessly to acquire it.
-Valandre Longroad trashtalking modern artists at national Art Convention

[Ghovatstan]

"WHO HAS DRAWN ALL THOSE DICKS???"

-Paveli Kurmansho, head of the Cabinet of Censorship, after his office building was literally covered with pictures of male genitalia. The perpetrator has never been caught.

[Xadufell]

"There is a very fine line between... Having common sense... And being an absolute fucking idiot."

- Tyere Grosznyki

[United Dixieland Territories]

"Many, for some idiotic reason in the greater wide-world view us as Luddites in all but name; dear merciful lord, we use Atomic Batteries for powered infantry armored exoskeletons, have fission & fusion cells for power plant sub-systems and a multitude thriving computer-technical, military and aerospace manufacturing."

"How on God's Green Earth are the Confederate people luddites? To this day, I can-not & do-not comprehend the reasoning people use for such an assumption."

~ Ambassador Theodore Crawford at a "Technology & Trade World' Fair" in 1964

[Las Palmeras]

"People visit the UK to see royalty; people go here to see Khrushchev-esque public buildings, the color red in official buildings and writing, and a ceremonial document about 'Socialism' by some 100 to 500 years, even if the giant statues of a Black and a White cat seem to impose themselves over it as the Sickle and Hammer become a new Cross with materialist messianic pretensions."
-Office Lady

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"Dictators are not selfish. Tyrants are."

-Chief Justice Anduin Reinhardt

[Aethal]

"Some of the elk-that-walks from the greenlands cry and run in terror or fall to their knees when our warriors take them for flesh or for the mines; some stand and fight when the warknife is drawn, this leads to a good hunt, for the elk-that-walks is the finest prey and is pleasing unto Ûlfhaz, whetting his iron teeth from altars of stone."

~ From The Friþugaizazsagǭ also called "Friþugaizaz Saga", dated back to 1250-BC and one of the earliest-distributed stories of the sheer terror Ulfran appetites can cause when given the freedom to run amok in the world.