Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[The Nexus of Man]

"Uh oh! I guess we should start burning our churches now!"

- Barney

"Funny you should say that..."

~Celestian Sister-Superior

"Goddamn it..."

- Barney

[Auroya]

"A secular government is the only one which could ever possibly fit Auroyan cultural values."

--- Empress Julia Gloria Alexandria II

[Xekliv]

"Let's burn it up!"

-- Emperor Praxis Marr III, tearing off his shirt before a one-on-one duel of lightning-fisticuffs against the aspect of the Dark Witch AFTER 10,000 YEARS SHE'S FREE!

[Ardavia]

"Funny you should say that..."

~Celestian Sister-Superior

"Goddamn it..."

- Barney

"CLEANSE! PURGE! KILL! ALL IS TAINTED; NOTHING SHALL BE SPARED!"

~The same Sister-Superior, minutes later.

[The Underground Movement Union]

"Today is the day we will finally break free from the chains of oppression, today is a day to remember, today will be celebrated as the day we have proven our strength, Today, today is the day we will defeat the greatest super powers the world has ever seen. We will avenge the men, women, children and families that died fighting for our freedom!"

-Jordan Overbeck, During The Liberation Of Whitehorse

[New Frenco Empire]

"Religious spreads the word of religion, we call them missionaries. Religious takes up the sword of religion, we call them crusaders. Atheist spreads word of Atheism, we call them preachy. Atheist shoots the damn priests, we call them cruel Bolsheviks. *sigh* it's times like this I almost miss the Soviet Union, at least there used to be a societal double-standard favorable to the atheists in that country..."

- Nicholas Phisych, Founder of Phisych University.

"Uh oh! I guess we should start burning our churches now!"

- Barney

"Nonsense. We'd be happy to do it for you."

-Ser Manfrey Lupes, Zealotry

[The Nexus of Man]

"Uh oh! I guess we should start burning our churches now!"

- Barney

"Nonsense. We'd be happy to do it for you."

-Ser Manfrey Lupes, Zealotry

"We've got more testing to do now. Damn it!"

- PURELIGHT Soldier

[Ardavia]

"Uh oh! I guess we should start burning our churches now!"

- Barney

"Nonsense. We'd be happy to do it for you."

-Ser Manfrey Lupes, Zealotry

"NOTHING IS SAFE. ALL WILL BURN!"

~The Sister-Superior, a bit overenthusiastic

[Auroya]

"We're supposed to be the bad guys and we're meant to practice storming a building. You know what that means - fuck desks!"

--- Cpt. Lady Ivyne v. Crimsonstein, 3rd Marineborne Division

[Estainia]

"There's a certain dark irony to the hypocrisy of this Empire concerning religion. Officially, the Empire is Luciellan, yet officially they also do not enforce the state religion and about half a dozen at any given time are present in the country in some form or another. Officially, they're religiously tolerant, unofficially if you make the mistake of insulting their religion you'll get beaten to death by an angry crowd and the militia will just kick your body into a ditch and move on with other 'more serious crime' like tax evasion. Officially, Christianity is illegal, unofficially, the largest religion in Alisonia is Roman Orthodox Christianity. Officially, the office of the monarch is also the office of the highest priest, this one they actually do pay attention to, which is where the irony comes in. Where the nation of San Cristobel now is in southern Irkhalla there used to be a MayaIntech amagalmation (as befitting the fractured nature of this fucked up planet)... Then the Alisonians got around to colonizing the area, and in true fashion as befitting the name 'Russo-Spanish Empire', they basically annihilated everything ever known about the majority of these peoples (the Incan analogue is still around in southern San Cristobel's mountains) something about blood religions (the Temple of Yol deals in blood sacrifice, the Demetrist religion deals in outright human sacrifice, as does the God of the Darcsen), and their unholiness (their Gods are really smiling on that, I'd bet). There was never a mention of savagery, amusingly enough. In closing, Religion, eh? Bloody Imperials and their dogged blind loyalty to invisible friends." - Notes from Cornelius' Maximilian's field journal, 1963

Notably not yet torn apart by angry mobs due to the fact he's a demigod (though they have tried).

[Shaleh]

"Praise Dzissil."


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[Phisych University]

"Religious spreads the word of religion, we call them missionaries. Religious takes up the sword of religion, we call them crusaders. Atheist spreads word of Atheism, we call them preachy. Atheist shoots the damn priests, we call them cruel Bolsheviks. *sigh* it's times like this I almost miss the Soviet Union, at least there used to be a societal double-standard favorable to the atheists in that country..."

- Nicholas Phisych, Founder of Phisych University.

"Uh oh! I guess we should start burning our churches now!"

- Barney

It's kind if an IC joke by him because he was a citizen of a Soviet Bloc state before his anti-Communist political opinions forced him to move out of the Soviet Bloc. Essentially, he's simply missing the state atheism that used to surround him in his day-to-day life.

I guess I should have established that previously.

---

"Y'know, I'm amazed that you haven't enforced any anti-theist legislation here. Like, almost impressed. The Head of the Enforcer Corps is a Christian, the population is mostly religious, yet we have an anti-theist as the head if state. Like, do you actually have something against killing or repressing people for religious believes despite wanting to wish religion away?"

"It's because Newton was Christian and Einstien was Jewish. Maybe some other religious scientists I've forgot at the moment too. That's really it."

"... I had ninety six theories and you killed every single one..."

"Yeah, I'm a fun-Nazi like that."

- Nicholas Phisych, Founder of Phisych University, and Charles, A.I. Assistant.

[Allancia]

"Imagine, if you will, that you live in a society where all desires are met. You want food? All you have to do is ask for it. You don't like your house? Just complain, and everything is already solved. You don't feel like your children are nice enough to you? Just tell them that, and they will immediately start begging for your forgiveness. A utopian society, one might say. Now imagine if...
I would complain all day long to annoy the shit out of whoever was passing this stuff put."

-DMIOE and Neumond Wernicke
Reichskanzler, Reichskaiser
Rehearsing a speech together. Neumond was a little drunk while they were doing this, obviously.

[Las Palmeras]

"The King of Spain is far away. God is further away from us if the King of Spain does things the way he does. You should help yourself. God loves helping people who help themselves."
-A farmer, 1800s

[Tellus Mater]

"Metal and wiring, circuitry and paneling. This is not an epitomy, all you have succeeded in becoming is a tool, nothing more than something to be utilized to the ends of another, superior being. Like all those fools from Our era, who chose to 'ascend' to become energy, they have been used, a tool to be harvested by other, greater species, like ours." - Grand Librarian Gaius Marius

[Interstellar America]

"Goddamn do I love the theory of mass energy release! Suck Einstein, jackasses!" - Robert B. Johnson, U.S. Army, 2207, was berated later for bad scientific history.

[Estainia]

"Fatalism runs in the family."

"That or genocidal tendencies."

"Yep. We're all around severely damaged."

"Living forever does things to the mind, I believe."

"Yeah, doesn't help that our cousin is Death."

"Indeed not." - part of a conversation between Cornelius Maximilian and Gwenael Maximilian, 1901

[Allancia]

"The best medicine for totalitarianism is complacency."

-Edmund Rosencrantz
Newspaper editor
Talking to Neumond Wernicke

[ChaosKingdom]

"Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."-

Nelson Mandela

[Estainia]

"I feel that there is a moral lesson in the multiverse that somewhere out there, George got it right." - Cornelius Maximilian, 1984

[Beefmerica]

Dammit, again?! Why does no one listen when I tell them its not a good idea to put your house next to a nuclear waste dump. - President Ward after reading over the people section on Nationstates.

[Greater Franco-Iberia]

"Please somebody help us... Oh god their coming!
NO... NO NOT THE LEG ARRRGGGH -gurgling noises-"

Every Franco-Iberian citizen who gets their dirty little paws on a radio.

[Novum Alexandria]

"S'pose it says something 'bout Alexandria when the only reason we got an airforce is because we wanted to use less orbital strikes."
-Alexandrian archivist

[Auzkhia]

"A world power simply cannot ignore the rest of the world."
-Emperor Karl II

[Rothuria]

"A leader's first responsibility is to his people, not the bickerings and groanings of foreign dignitaries."

King Davit I (reign: 1872-1915)