Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Blakullar]

"Singapore!"
"Singapore!"
"Singapore!"
"It's only a model..."
"Shush! Soldiers, I bid you welcome to our new ally. Let us enter ... Singapore!"
*Trotskaya steps through the portal, and Serbian folk music, played very loudly, is heard. She walks back through the portal again.*
"On second thought, let's not go to Singapore. It is a silly place..."
*Everybody mumbles in approval.*

~ an undocumented attempt at making contact with the PTFS by the Mechanocracy, circa 2150.

[Gigaverse]

"Can you remember the last time that place was serious?"
"No, Master?"
"Me neither."

-Shinji Sakahara and a member of his entourage; referring to that Singapore.

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"Come to think of it, don't our military ranks, when it comes to Japanese translation, resemble a combination of Imperial Japanese Armed Forces ranks and Japan Self Defense Forces ranks? I mean, if you look at our enlisted ranks, you'll, say, find the rank of Private equating to 二等陸士 (Ni Tourikushi) exactly the same format used by the JSDF, except the latter, in this case, equates to Private First Class, and uses the Hindu-Arabic numeral, like so: ２等陸士. And if you look at our officer ranks, you'll find that, in the High Colonel rank for instance, we use 陸軍大佐 (Rikugun Taisa), as used by the IJA, instead of the １等陸佐 (Ichi Tourikusa) used by the JSDF. The only exceptions are the Warrant Officers, which, in the army for instance, use 准陸尉 (Junrikujou), as used by the JSDF, except that it is preceded by the 等 (Tou) character used by our enlisted soldiers, as opposed to the 陸軍准尉 (Rikugun Jun'i) used by the IJA." -Neptune

"Not to mention that our officer ranks also, for instance, in the OF-3 rank, uses the 軍少佐 (Gun Shousa) format, preceded by 陸 (Riku), 海 (Kai), 海兵 (Kaihei) or 空 (Kuu) to denote Army, Navy, Marine or Air Force, respectively, as the Japan Self Defense Forces do when it comes to branch differentiation, although theirs is a bit different when it comes to rank escalation." -Hypedimension Blanc

"Didn't they always do that since before the JSDF?" -Neptune

"I believe they did, it's just that our system seems a tad more similar to the JSDF more than it does the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, is all." -Blanc

[Fatatatutti]

"The last time foreigners tried to raid a U.S. prison, they died. Simple as that. Prison guards shot them to shit, and Air Guard shot down their planes."

-- Chief U.S. Marshal Preston Adams.

"Nobody's security is perfect. There's always a way in. Sometimes it's brute force coupled with the element of surprise. Sometimes it's more subtle. For us, there's a complication in that we try to do things without hurting people."
-- General Marie-Louise Castro-Stalina, lecturing on Operations at Officer Candidate School

[Star Trek America]

"Unprovoked acts of war are answered with legitimate war." - First Minister Daniel Martel

[Fatatatutti]

"Unprovoked acts of war are answered with legitimate war." - First Minister Daniel Martel

"The Navy can equivocate between acts of war and acts of piracy. In the Army, we don't have that luxury. We will commit acts of war when and where we please."
-- Major John "Scottie" Wilson, CO Raiding Force (Romeo Foxtrot)

[Imperial Paleoworld Germania]

"'We will never tolerate rule under a king or a dictator' the Americans say as they vote for the same saur four times."
~ Reichschancellor Ulrich von Hassell on the results of the 1944 Presidential election

[Interstellar America]

"50 BC or 2100 AD, the tools get more efficient, the weapons become fancier, but one thing remained the same, whether on one planet or many; infantry is the undisputed queen of battle." - Captain Woodrow Kay, United States Army

[Intermountain States]

"I still can't believe that my sick leave to my home in Bismark is the reason that I'm President. How is it that I'm one of the only member of government that survived the nuclear holocaust?

-- Secretary of Commerce Kyle Mendoza being appointed to the office of Presidency in lieu with the presidential order of succession after the death of the President and everyone else after her.

[Blakullar]

"Our prisoner transport vessels* will cross the seas unmolested, each time they leave their docks. Those who attack the ships, and actually succeed in 'liberating' the prisoners, will quickly find that the rest of their population will find themselves aboard the next shipment - beneath an Aerofleet dispatched to receive the surrender of the belligerent polity."

~ a Mintrukom (Ministry of Labour Commissar) when asked to describe State policy on piracy.
* = a euphemism for the ships that transport slaves destined for the Gulags from occupied zones.

[Auroya]

"The system is designed to accomodate strong and weak leaders: if weak, some of their duties can be taken over by executive committees; if strong, those same committees will do their bidding."

--- Sir Ploton a. Sara

[Romandeos]

"More than once, a foreign power has threatened us with regards to our active assaults upon the slave trade. More than once, we have bid them try to stop us. More than once, they have issued bloodcurdling threats, but otherwise done nothing. Why? Because at the end of the day, they are simply cowards."

~ Imperial Chancellor Andreas Éliás Kertész, I.F.S.A.

[Greater Mackonia]

"Nothing more disgraces a man than empathy. The standard of goodness upheld by conventional morality is the extent to which you can make yourself pleasurable to other people, the moral code of talentless bores."

-Z.Maglos.

[Bereia]

"Those who have no empathy for their fellow man decry it in others because it helps them to feel less like assholes. Which they basically are."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Neo-Ezo]

"Every sword in this room has tasted blood. Yes, including mine."

- President F. A. R. Yukimura, when showing a guest her "Sword Room," in which nearly every katana wielded by a member of her family line is housed, some more than one thousand years old.

[Bojikami]

"Peace sells, but who's buying?"
-Graffiti

[Xekliv]

"Peace sells, but who's buying?"
-Graffiti

"YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHHS FO ECEIP ELTTIL UOY"

-- Malfunctioning Centurion

[Las Palmeras]

"An individual without empathy for their fellow man wouldn't probably feel bad as they'd lack any significant amount of guilt or shame to begin with. Their motivations and means in society would be clear for themselves, but it's little likely to be expiation in these kinds of people."
-José Zorilla

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"Heh. Irony. But hey, he's a lab psychologist, not a therapist."
-No Name

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"We're quite cringeworthy, let's be honest.

We don't even need to list what we've done, the very self-deprecatory nature of this statement is enough to prove the point."
-AI

[Adiya]

"Nuha, by the Black God's breath! Where did all of this blood come from- where'd Ed- ?"

"Hooma, you're going to be angry with me, just a heads up, but I had to slay him. Friends don't let friends date fucking vampires."

- Hooma al-Ayd and Nuha al-Ul, random occurrences in Adiya.

[Qasqirstan]

"You can't just glue a tusk to a horse's head and call it a unicorn, Nail!"
"And yet, here I am, atop my unicorn."
--A discussion between Mergen Hayak and Nail Hayak, on whose horse was a better mount. The clan mother declare Nail to be the victor.

[Verdiga]

If a government wants social intervention in people's lives, it is more likely to be a theocracy. -Person

[Amerikians]

"Shut up for a minute and listen. I want you to open a history book, several preferably, I want you to find ones that are neutral and ones that are biased. Then I want you to study these Glorious Eras in American History you keep talking about, I want you to see something that all history agrees on. They actually sucked a lot of dick." - Robert 'Bob' Newhart, Citizen, in conversation with a White Christian American

[Greater Corean Empire]

"Use plenty of aphrodisiacs and drugs. At the end of the day, they'll be your bitches."

-Bigukgyeong cadre educating fresh meat(shield)s.

[Las Palmeras]

"José's basest motivation is boredom, this leads to curiosity and fiddling with his mundane experiments and investigations at work in the Palmeran Center of Mental Health. And also messing with people in his free time in attempts to modify their behavior, and he's really good at manipulating people to help them or uncover things despite the fact he has to masterfully imitate expressions due to a very basic sense of empathy and hide his occasional selfish contempt (or genuine lack of appreciation) for social norms.

And while he pursues all his objectives with the utmost complexity, discipline, and sophistication; his motives exist out of simple nagging curiosity and because it amuses him, much like a child. He's apparently good with them, to the point that he likes playing with kids. Make of his marriage and wife's abnormally youthful external appearance what you will."
-No Name, narrating