Quotes of people in your nation MK.III

[New Frenco Empire]

"This thread is but a realm of Mary Sues and Straw Men."

-Mr. Rue, He Who Sees Past the Fourth Wall

Considering I've gotten angry telegrams from people who believed that my characters were acting as a front for my own opinions, and that they encompass a whole broad range from hedonists to moral guardians, from industrial titans to environmentalist activists, from the empowered individual in a direct democracy to fascists discontent with the current system, and gotten flack over nearly every single one of the above, it's safe to say that those of us capable of a little thought and imagination of people who disagree with us are capable of creating real characters out of them. Please, continue to contribute absolutely nothing but "Lol guiz aren't I so clever :^) Let me now masturbate to my clever strawpeople." It only reflects poorly on you.

As someone who has posted (usually) non-biased quotes from characters I don't agree with OOCly (like anyone from the Limiter faction, that hippie Wainright, or anyone else talking about politics that isn't Kline or the intentionally parody character Mary Sue), respect to you.

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"Why are we using AFVs with flamethrowers on them whenever we have thermobaric weapons?"

"Those aren't always available or reliable whenever you're fighting in jungles thicker than the air in a Euphoria Lounge back home. Plus, they are pretty damn cool."

"Good point, sarge."

-conversation between a Vanguard Corporal and Sergeant on the Fritzammer flame variant

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[Bereia]

"A big problem with Internet forums and chat rooms is the people with moderate positions don't talk very much, leaving most of them to groups of extremists of varying types. The result here is half of the Internet looks like Red Square, and the other looks like a Klan rally."

-- Wotan, forumgoer, on Internet extremists.

[Senyosu]

Humans have a death wish. And that wish will come true.

-???-

[Amerikians]

"America... America stands on the edge of a knife, teetering on the cliff and about to fall in to the same fate of every other organ before her to go down the path of darkness... He who fights monsters, and she wasn't careful." - Bob Newhart, of all people and he's entirely right.


Which is where I throw out the necessary warning that this America and the America are not the same creatures. A good example? This one is a near-fascist state and absolutely brutal to any ideology or thought process that it views as 'Anti-American' which can be everything from Soviet Communism to something so simple as opposing censorship.

[Las Palmeras]

"It was the worse aspect of it since the beginning of the Invasion. Bombing elves and pig-men gave us no guilt. It really didn't. Disorganized and frenzied as they tried to go back or forth they were picked off by carpet bombings or our mechanized forces, it didn't matter. Last week we encountered the Dark Lord's army and decided to use a blood agent while they were in the valley with a mass barrage that killed dozens of thousands in minutes and left many others retreating. They're probably being picked off now.

We reached the first major city, and it had about 110,000 members within it, though our precision strikes did eventually cause the magical defenses to fall, however seeing as how mages were still around air bombings began. Around 50% of the city was razed until the mages fled. We finally decided to go in despite the fact that urban warfare with them would have been a first and that we were still outnumbered.

To our astonishment, few mages remained, and the locals...humanoids...surrendered almost as instantly as they saw the tanks approaching. We found our own handiwork as some of them cursed us. But then we reached this plaza that wasn't bombed by us. And it was full of corpses, most of them were fresh. From regular folk and cannon fodder, the elves killed them while they retreated. After asking for explanations and interrogating most of the inhabitants said that after the bombings; their command and the Dark Elves had a disagreement over surrendering, as a result their men revolted and were crushed by the Elven mages who proceeded to 'make an example' of any Incubi/Succubi/Demons before eventually retreating anyways. And it wasn't over for them yet, we don't loot because they have nothing of value for us; however rape was a serious problem for the MPs to deal with in the first days. I'm ashamed it happened.

And so, we're here...stuck giving out rations in food lines to these little people with fangs as they occasionally thank us, or curse us, or cry their eyes dry as they walk in a sluggish and painful manner always with their heads down. I'm convinced it's not liberation. We just changed administration."
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[Ruridova]

Which is where I throw out the necessary warning that this America and the America are not the same creatures. A good example? This one is a near-fascist state and absolutely brutal to any ideology or thought process that it views as 'Anti-American' which can be everything from Soviet Communism to something so simple as opposing censorship.

I don't much like that America.

"Thought is the root of all other liberties. Take it, and none shall remain. Keep it, and no other can be touched."
- Fmr. Prime Minister Pierre Delacroix, first in 1944 and later in 1961

[Bojikami]

"... And it appears as if once again our nation will have to defend the east from the west, for once again the west wishes to impose its values and culture upon the east."
-Anthony Regovishki, a part of his speech which announced Bojikami's involvement in the Vietnam war.

[Amerikians]

It's not Fallout America, yet, Francis. Yet. The Constitution hasn't been suspended (to even consider so is considered treason). It's a hardline rightist democracy, but still a democracy. There are little shinings of liberal thought as well, it's just very entrenched in height of the cold war thought.

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"Who's on watch tonight? Is it YOU? Don't fall asleep! Your brothers depend on you to keep alert to keep Ivan at bay!" - Recruitment Propaganda poster for the 'Nightwatch', a paramilitary organization.

[Saurisisia]

"I care for all living creatures."

"Even me?"

"As a friend."

"Damn."
~ A Saurisian animal lover and her male friend

[Wisconsin9]

"I care for all living creatures."

"Even me?"

"As a friend."

"Damn."
~ A Saurisian animal lover and her male friend

Still Futurama.

[Senyosu]

Cultural dissonance is why east and west will always conflict. Tolerance is too soft and weak to keep such dissonance at bay. It is only through mutual understanding and dialogue, that we may be able to move past such barriers.

-Masaomi Ginsē, Minister of Education-

[Bereia]

"Being courteous and polite is a means, not an end in itself, a fact which many of my foreign counterparts would seem to have forgotten. It is alright to be ineffective, as long as you are polite."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

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"I will be the first to admit she isn't especially polite or courteous, but she gets the job done. Our enemies despise her, and even our allies think she could use a little polish, but in my eyes she has been nothing less than an exemplary representative."

-- President Dalton Barbosa, on Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

[Amerikians]

"I've never had a cross-problem with Secretary Tagliaferro, we've had words most certainly and not all of them were kind, but we've never been in direct intellectual combat with one another. But then again that's probably because we think on similar lines; I'm not here to bend my back to your will, I'm here to make sure you concede the point whether or not it has to be blunt and discourteous." - Secretary of State Robert Hauffmann.

[Senyosu]

Politeness is necessary at times. It is far more virtuous to be just and assertive, and I thus give Tagliaferro-san praise for her assertiveness.

-Minister of Interior Sakie Oza-

[Ruridova]

"Being courteous and polite is a means, not an end in itself, a fact which many of my foreign counterparts would seem to have forgotten. It is alright to be ineffective, as long as you are polite."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"There is a difference between being polite and being a pussy. Similarly, there is also a difference between being blunt and being a cunt."
- C.M. Tagliaferro

[Saurisisia]

"I can be polite and courteous when I wish to be and I can be blunt and discourteous when I wish to be. Diplomacy is something like a game in that regard: it plays out differently each time and it has different results each time."
~ Secretary of Foreign Affairs Beth Sanderson

[Bojikami]

"Personally, I think Mrs. Tagliaferro sets an important example for diplomats across the world. Your job is not to act submissively, your job is to assert your nations position and do so in the best and most effective way possible."
-Head of Foreign Affairs, Nikita Andreyev

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"Being courteous and polite is a means, not an end in itself, a fact which many of my foreign counterparts would seem to have forgotten. It is alright to be ineffective, as long as you are polite."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"There is a difference between being polite and being a pussy. Similarly, there is also a difference between being blunt and being a cunt."
- C.M. Tagliaferro

"Haha. It rhymed."
-Antony Belinsky

[Ruridova]

"Personally, I think Mrs. Tagliaferro sets an important example for diplomats across the world. Your job is not to act submissively, your job is to assert your nations position and do so in the best and most effective way possible."
-Head of Foreign Affairs, Nikita Andreyev

"Before we go any farther, let's not forget that she's told people she disagreed with that they should have been murdered as infants. I'm not sure why this makes her such a great diplomat, but apparently that's some sort of qualification in most countries.

I must wonder: with her opponents at home, does she ever tell them that she wishes they had wound up on the Missing Persons List as young children? If she had been an adult in the 1970s, would she have wished that anti-war protestors be murdered, or only maimed? Has she ever wished rape upon somebody, or assault and battery with a deadly weapon? What about stillbirths and assassination?"
- C.M. Tagliaferro

"There is a difference between being polite and being a pussy. Similarly, there is also a difference between being blunt and being a cunt."
- C.M. Tagliaferro

"Haha. It rhymed."
-Antony Belinsky

"It's also true, despite what some believe."
- C.M. Tagliaferro

[Senyosu]

I am surrounded by idiots, and I am expecting the other ministers to believe the same. Especially that baboon Sakie Oza and his kēgo speak. Alas, young and born of a prestegious family, the sheltered child. I for one had to actually live it rough and pardon my language, live in a fucking dumpster for much of my teen years.

Anyways. The lot here are dumbasses, and they probably think the same of the others. Competence is a mystery, really. None of us, save for the finance minister and minister of culture, are actually meant for the job. Who had the great idea of putting a former street rat turned fashion model as the Minister of Hearth and Home? Oh, basically I am the health minister but we got fancy names for certain positions. Regardless, does the prime minister have any critical thinking skills?

Whatever, I do love my job though. Healthcare and welfare are important after all, without universal healthcare I'd probably be dead, ya know?

Still. What the fuck is wrong with our government?!

-Minister of Hearth and Home Kuroda Setōshi-

Note, kēgo speak is basically the same thing as keigo in Japanese language. It is basically levels of politeness in speech.

[Wisconsin9]

Dealing with Tagliaferro is kind of like running an obstacle course in a minefield.—Alisa Andreev, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

"Alan G. Zaytsev, cause of death: asphyxia and multiple trauma."
"No, sir, buried alive by the Agricola Mineral Corporation."
"I know your grief is much that you may not be realizing what you are saying."
"I want it recorded- 'Buried alive by the Agricola Mineral Corporation.' That is what I want to see on the record. That is the feeling of those present. Those are the words we want to go on the certificate."
-Conversation between the anonymous father of Alan Zaytsev and a local coroner, after Alan was killed in a mine collapse owned by the Agricola Mineral Corporation, speaking on behalf of the families of the killed miners

[The Grand World Order]

"...it was then I realized, God left this place a long, long time ago." -Grand Commander Griffith the First, founder of the Fascist Federation

[Amerikians]

"Dropping the Umbrella wasn't hard, froze their assets, utterly destroyed them. That's the thing about corporations, you disable their access to money, and the most powerful of them crumble like playing cards, and people have the gall to say they're going to take over the world?" - frmr President Norman Hope

[Bereia]

"For a woman whose caustic disposition is so well known, she is surprisingly hard to get truly angry. I have only seen it once, and I would not wish it on anybody."

-- Ms. Frances Yeargin, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.

[Estainia]

"It... Child abuse that is, is as complicated as it is genuinely disturbing, triply so when it's parental. Fear, loathing, hatred, and it's convoluted around love, dependence... It's a horrifying paradox quite frankly." - Cornelius Maximilian

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"The figure that came out was less than a man. He was not just lean, he was emaciated, his eyes sunken in and hollow, devoid of all light but the spark of life. His thin chest heaved for fresh air that was not filled from the dust of concrete. His uniform was tattered and nearly destroyed, and though he leaned heavily on his rifle, he still managed to carry himself forward with pride in his step, somehow. Some laughed, I didn't, I cried. Why you may ask? Because this man, this one man, stood against us when all the others had run, he stood and he fought until he could fight no more. If that is not bravery, if that is not courage, then what is?" - Captain René Capello, Imperial Army, The Great War, Belkan Campaign of 1917 - 1919