Quotes of people in your nation MK.III

[Senyosu]

With death being the ultimate end, one must strive to comfort others as well as themselves through deeds of goodwill.

-Eyosu Ōzari (1132-1195), Founder of the Õzari School of Buddhism-

[Bereia]

"That man has basically just given the enemies of his country a carte blanche to do and say anything they wish for the next three years. Those who dream of a world without America are about to have just a small taste of what they dream about. I have to wonder, will they enjoy it?"

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Byzantium Imperium]

"Beware the weak ones who stand in the place of the strong. Their lack of spine will be most costly to the nation in the short and long term." - Thanasis Floros, 1901

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"The one who stands by while horrible things happen is not the better person, he is the worse one, because he did nothing because it was not affecting him. This same ideal can be applied to nations, those who watch Germany pillage and burn Europe around us are not any better, they are worse for it. Because they agree with them." - Agrippa Hortensius, October 9th, 1941

[Saurisisia]

"Alright, where are we?"

"Well, we appear to be in the middle of a field marked with mushrooms."

"So what does that mean?"

"That we're standing in a field of mushrooms?"

"Dionysus, that is a military map. It is unlikely that it would detail interesting flora and fauna in the local area. What do the mushrooms symbolize?"

"It says 'mine'. So the mushrooms must belong to the fellow who made this map!"

"Either that or we're standing in a minefield!"

"So he owns the field as well?"
~ An Army Major arguing with his bumbling Lieutenant as they and a handful of Common rank soldiers as they scout farmlands for UDR positions, 1942

[Byzantium Imperium]

"You may look through our records dating all the way back to Caesar himself if you so desire, but you will not find God there. Whether or not Jesus of Nazareth existed is an academic irrelevancy at the end of the day, because people believe in him and his message regardless of whatever your silly book will say when it is published." - Mirza Abujamal, Coptic Christian and Head Librarian of the Library of Alexandria, the largest library in the Roman world. He was speaking to a duo of forensic anthropologists.

A librarian insulting a book is a little odd, perhaps, but that wasn't his profession talking towards the end there.

[Estainia]

"There are some things you just don't fight against, me, despite all my ability, am not one of those things. But that thing in there, in that other room? That is most certainly one of those things, and if you were smart, you'd be running right now while I distract it for the fifteen seconds you need to get out of here."

"And you?"

"What about me? It's tortured me before, I'm already a blathering maniac because of it." - Conversation between Cornelius Maximilian and an Egyptian serf, 8th century BC

[Horizont]

"That man has basically just given the enemies of his country a carte blanche to do and say anything they wish for the next three years. Those who dream of a world without America are about to have just a small taste of what they dream about. I have to wonder, will they enjoy it?"

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

"Well, I can't say that we especially miss it in our world."

---Viktoria von Hartmann; Kaiserin

[Senyosu]

Tradition is best, so long as tradition can adapt.

-Minister of Culture Kōzan Munushigē-

[Estainia]

Tradition is best, so long as tradition can adapt.

-Minister of Culture Kōzan Munushigē-

"If it adapts, it is not tradition." - Marquis Andrei Vasilyev, Minister of Culture

[Senyosu]

Tradition is best, so long as tradition can adapt.

-Minister of Culture Kōzan Munushigē-

"If it adapts, it is not tradition." - Marquis Andrei Vasilyev, Minister of Culture

Tradition adapts anyways as a result of natural causes like a lack of resources or by time. Catholicism was the main religion in Senyosu from 1500-1700, so where did it go? It changed into a new faith with similar traditions. This is a result of time, a lack of missionaries actually staying in Senyosu, and the prevalent animistic beliefs practiced alongside Catholicism.

Tradition adapts whether one realizes it or likes it. I loke to think of tradition as a river flowing downstream. Downstream is the future, which can be a lake or feeds into another river, upstream is the origin and past. Mankind also dictates where and how this river flows, a dam could be constructed to limit the flow thus limiting the amount of tradition being passed down and vice versa.

-Minister of Culture Kōzan Munushigē-

[Ameriganastan]

"They say 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely'. That doesn't apply to a man destined to have absolute power from the start."-Lord Cody Wayne Lowery, describing himself.

[Estainia]

"This, this is how it works in the modern world, the young are the movers of tomorrow, there's too much foreign influence over them, too much conflict ideology taking root in their malleable little minds. They get these ideas, these filthy foreign ideas in their heads and then they gather up in number, they march in the streets. Then the old soon join them because there's strength in numbers and they didn't have the stones to go first... That's revolution in the modern world, and I'll be damned if it happens here!" - Emperor Alexander Romanov VI, 1975

[Telmaur]

"They all say stereotyping is wrong until the topic of Southerners comes up. Then all bets are off, its all dumb, wife-beating men and barefoot, pregnant women. "

-Dana Kolton, American expat, on Leftists' selective outrage on profiling.

[Auzkhia]

"The United States is a semi-isolationist federal republic that likes to pretend the western hemisphere is theirs, and it is a different planet."
-Lord Boris Hugo von Bach

[Multifarity]

"Keep your American hands off my Vietnamese Dong!"

-Humorous placard held by a student at a march at what would become Multifarian State University, who wished to voice his disapproval of 'American Imperialism' (1964)
(The Dong being the currency of Vietnam)

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"Look! They're just trying to stop communism from spreading, even though rationally it's probably gone about as far as it's going to go! And if they have to do that through the mass-killing of civilians, then goddammit that's what they'll do!... Although, come to think of it, activities like that are exactly what's going to cause the chaos and resentment which leads nations to... Oh wait. Yeah, I get it now."

-Token pro-Vietnam War student at what would become the Multifarian State University (1964)

[Horizont]

"Yes, we secretly supply arms to the insurgents in Afrika who are fighting to 'liberate' their lands from our occupation. I have overseen many operations to do just this. It's mostly obsolete equipment, like World War Two or Cold War-era tanks upgraded with modern equipment and weapons. Why do we do this? To keep the guerrilla war in Afrika going. Our economy (which according to some, being completely state-owned, shouldn't even work) experiences wonderful levels of growth while we are at war. The development of new weapons and technologies is accelerated dramatically. And if the price of this is as low as a few dozen dead soldiers each day, it is a price we are very willing to pay."

---Adalwolfa von Kaiserberg; Reichsführerin-SS

[Saurisisia]

"They called us imperialists for defending our ally from rebels who wish to defile their country's culture and traditions while they attempt to spread their influence by funding the rebels to convert the Redwing state to their ideology."
~ Then-current President Paul Hayworth on the Communist countries supporting the Red Army Faction rebels during the Redwing Civil War

[Fatatatutti]

"Half the nations on NS Earth seem to be called the United States. I think we could get along quite well without a few dozen of them."

-- Harlan Escrow, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

[New Texan Empire]

"Man exists to serve the State. That is what differences us from animals, captain."
- Commander John Harvey Norman, to a rebellious captain in the army.

[Antarticaria]

"If you do not stand with your bothers and sisters, then stand in front of them and their service weapons"
- Commander Stovy of the Antarticarian Royal Guard Garrison

[Byzantium Imperium]

"How horrifying it must be for them if they were to ever realize the hypocrisy of decrying America's imperialism, when in fact they have been so much worse than they. If there is one thing our throngs of descendants have gotten right, it is how to dominate people far in excess of their own numbers." - Imperatrix Sophia Palaiologos Augusta

[Bezombia]

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." --Dr. Krans Eldschmer, shortly before sewing together several body parts in an attempt to recreate the Frankenstein monster.

[Keldar-9]

"We are the great salvation given form. The mercy, rage and glory of the Void given shape to see her will done. Come to us, children of creation, and join the Void in her eternal, loving embrace."

- 0696640, Keldarian Priest.

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

"All I can say is that if being a leading manufacturer means being a leading polluter, so be it." - Ruby Berkal, Representative of the Omni Industria Manufacturer's Cooperative

[Euletia]

"We are the great salvation given form. The mercy, rage and glory of the Void given shape to see her will done. Come to us, children of creation, and join the Void in her eternal, loving embrace."

- 0696640, Keldarian Priest.

We are, on the whole, extremely tolerant of dissent and speech that other nations might consider treasonous. We draw our line, however, with certain types of heresy - those types that threaten to do genuine harm to us. This new cult that has arisen, worshipers of these "Children of the Void," has shown evidence of having a degree of truth and some form of highly advanced brainwashing. We now believe them to be worshipers of a species of cosmic entity, and based on information forcibly "extracted" from the cultists, we believe said species to be an existential threat to our Empire. Therefore, I first of all recommend hunting down every single member of the cult, saving them if possible, executing them if necessary, and second of all putting copious funds towards our space program. We will find these entities, and we will destroy them. - Inquisitor Hannibal Wallace, to a formal meeting between officials of the Church, the Empire, and a number of lords and CEOs.