Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[New Hyannis]

"Let each man be his own master, neither lording over his neighbor, nor being lorded over by his neighbor, freely seeking his own utopia rather than having another's ideas imposed on him by force."

~ Desilinda Fourdoux, M.C.A.

[Blakullar]

"...so the Big Bad Wolf jumped out of the bed, intent on devouring Little Red as he had her grandma. Except little did the dumb bastard know that Little Red had sufficient combat skills to knock every single one of those big teeth down his throat in one punch. Then she found the toughest, sharpest rock she could find, and smashed the Wolf's head against it so hard his skull shattered into a thousand pieces like a vase, scattering blood and brains all over the place. It was awesome. Anyway, after her great victory over the Wolf, Little Red decided to give all the cakes intended for her recently-deceased grandma to a bunch of gopniks, before inviting them to a wild party at grandma's house. And everybody got absolutely wasted on bootleg ketamine. THE END."

~ Little Red Riding Hood, as told by Ippolyta the Manreaper.

[Rudkullar]

"Any conceivable difference that is not coincidental will be completely smashed and wiped from existence, until there is only one monolith of a society, with no cracks on its inside to limit whatever wonders it could build."
-Ileksandar Dunazar

[Darussalam]

“Hierarchy is essential for any ordered society. A polity will flourish only through the cooperation of its multitude of peoples into a cohesive structure. After all, what is a monarch without his servants and retainers, a patriarch without his family? The polities that proclaim themselves ‘equal’ and ‘free’ merely cement injustice further into its foundation, and engage in implausible denial on the inherent inequality of earthly creations.”
-Hatim ibn Al-Mutawakkil, Regent of the Caliphate (1968-1997)

[Star Trek America]

"This may come as a shock to many, but we, the American Republic, are not actually socialists." - First Minister Corentin Villeneuve

"Eighty-four percent of Amerii are Azurites, the remaining population are a combination of Luciellanism and Roman Orthodoxy, when it comes to the idio---I mean irreligious, we don't actually take them down in the religious census, and I hope the reason is obvious to you because I'd rather not explain it." - Censor Fernand Escoffier

[Fatatatutti]

"I'm going to shake the satellite a little, so if your TV signal goes wonky, that's why."
-- engineer Joey Hunter, while demonstrating the Remote Manipulator Arm on the orbiter Va'a Two

[New Hyannis]

"This is what the statist fears most, that people will one day recognize that social order can be maintained without top-down pressure from an all-powerful government elite. They fear that day intensely, and strive to prevent its ever coming about, because on that day...they become totally irrelevant."

~ Ezra Rainey, Advocates for Voluntary Associations.

[The Socialist Global Union]

"It is an unavoidable fact that all resources are in fact limited. As such, true post scarcity within the confines of physical reality is unfortunately impossible. However, it is also important to remember that this reality which we inhabitant is without meaning or value. This means that we can use the materials present within our physical reality to construct a far larger virtual reality where the post scarcity ideal can be achieved. This should be the end goal of marxist thought, the mass upload of the proleteriat to a virtual utopia."

~Zhang Shikai, The Continuation of the Revolution Beyond Marx

[Byzantium Imperium]

"Esteemed members of the Senate. I was asked today, by the Belkan Princess Katherina von Bora, to crown her as empress of the Belkans, as according to Belkan Law, only someone of the rank of emperor may do so. Do any here have objection to this?"

"Objection to a client-empress? Certainly not."

"You misunderstand, Senator, this is monarch to monarch, bestowing a title of equals."

"You are no monarch, Caesar, do well to bear in mind that you answer to us, who answer to the people of Rome."

"Of course, Consul, however this is how they will see it. Your response, gentlemen of the Senate?" - Caesar Romulus Aurelius Secundus Augustus addressing the Senate of Rome shortly before the official reunification of the Grand Belkan Empire.

[Imperivm Terrae]

"Sometimes, those we love are those that kill us inside. I knew it was impossible, I knew I'd fail, I knew I should have listened to my mind telling me all this; yet I persevered. And in the end, it shattered my heart into pieces. Do I deserve this for trying? Why? Why did I fail? Why is it still so painful, even if I knew that the odds were never in my favour?"

- Derek Oswald, random citizen, upon dropping an entire box of pizza, attempting to catch it, failing and dislocating his ankle in the process

[Ashkera]

"They promised that we would have lots of money, and the things that money could buy - cars, air conditioners, medicines, that sort of thing. They made it sound like a paradise. Is it? Well it's alright, I guess. The air conditioning is nice, the currency is stable, and the last blackout I can remember was ten years ago. It didn't really solve the meaning of my life, but it's comfortable. And I guess my nephew is doing well in school, too, so that's nice."
- South American man, regarding the entry of his country in the southwest of the continent into the Joint Defense Initiative

"Let each man be his own master, neither lording over his neighbor, nor being lorded over by his neighbor, freely seeking his own utopia rather than having another's ideas imposed on him by force."

~ Desilinda Fourdoux, M.C.A.

"We found this government, this Fifth Empire, opening the fifth era for our people, on the same principles that have underlaid the greatest governments and dynasties of our history - that it is the duty, right, and obligation of the skilled to guide their lessers in society towards a better future. Greatness is not only a gift, but also a responsibility and a burden. Just as our great ancestor Ishiko, Who Serves, guided the armies of the underworld for their benefit, the duty falls on each of us, in so much as we are great, to guide others and serve them."
- Oversight Councillor One, 1918

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[New Hyannis]

"If somebody ever dares call you his lesser, slit that fucker's throat. That was the mindset of the so-called noble knights of Europe to the lesser peasants, and anybody who can read a book knows how that shit turned out before it was through."

~ Lanesh Daquet, anarchist.

[Higher Japan]

"The hell is this, pineapple on pizza? We're banning this shit.
- A member of the senate before the ban on pineapple on pizza was eventually passed.

[Imperium Centralium]

"The hell is this, pineapple on pizza? We're banning this shit.
- A member of the senate before the ban on pineapple on pizza was eventually passed.

"Late to the club, fam."
-Hadrius Calvinius

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"The Plebeian will remain a Plebeian, for he does not emanate nobility even if he dons a white toga, he does not radiate with glory even if he is crowned with the golden laurel leaves, he does not wield power even if he wears a purple cape, and he most certainly does not possess refinement even if he holds a glass of wine."
-Lucius Valentius

[Stojam]

"There is one thing Commies don't understand, and it's that they can't break us, take our money and humiliate everyone, they are too much of arrogant scum to even think of..... So I suggest to all Commies to back off from Stojam."
- A Stojamian Patriot named Vladimir.

[Imperium Centralium]

"There is one thing Commies don't understand, and it's that they can't break us, take our money and humiliate everyone, they are too much of arrogant scum to even think of..... So I suggest to all Commies to back off from Stojam."
- A Stojamian Patriot named Vladimir.

"Confidence in the capability of your immune system does not guarantee that your body will be fully impervious to diseases."
-Ergalisus Castinus

"If you kill them as soon as they become infected, and bury them immediately after, you can prevent its spread very, very effectively. Zhuangzi jin syndrome is best cured with lethal radiotherapy."
-Ergalisus Castinus, on thermonuclear saturation bombing of opponents of the Actually Civilized World.

"Every female online that doesn't agree with my views is most certainly a transgender, and a vile leftist who sells their mutilated body to Victorialans at their sex dungeons at that too."
-Bastiano

[Fatatatutti]

"The hell is this, pineapple on pizza? We're banning this shit.
- A member of the senate before the ban on pineapple on pizza was eventually passed.

"Bacon and pineapple pizza, deep-fried."
-- todays special in the Takeapenny Arsenal cafeteria

[New Hyannis]

"People will do better to protect what is theirs."

~ Guerma Nagaux, environmentalist, on why he supports the Commonwealth's policy of private ownership and stewardship of most land and natural resources. Of note, the Commonwealth has a lush, beautiful environment which is the envy of the region, and home to many species of flora and fauna rarely seen in many places.

[Ashkera]

"If somebody ever dares call you his lesser, slit that fucker's throat. That was the mindset of the so-called noble knights of Europe to the lesser peasants, and anybody who can read a book knows how that shit turned out before it was through."

~ Lanesh Daquet, anarchist.

"It was long an issue of contention with the Americans. The Americans argued that all men were equal, but for the Ashkerans even rudimentary observation showed this was obviously not true. That there could even be inalienable rights in the first place was disputed, for what source could they have? The issue was not resolved by the transition from the military dictatorship of the Fourth Empire to the technocratic bureaucracy of the Fifth Empire. Nonetheless, relations improved during to Cold War due to mutual opposition to Communism. It wasn't until the 1960s that someone managed to reconcile Shadowism with Liberalism, but that sect remains a tiny minority, at least in the homeland."
- historian

"The Ashkerans managed to avoid Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Under Shadowism, the soul undergoes multiple incarnations, gaining experience over multiple lifetimes of diligent work and virtue. However, there was no reason to assume all souls reincarnated at the same rate. The cleverer, the faster, the wiser, and the stronger were therefore likely later incarnations, closer to the forms needed to do battle with the heavens in the final battle. However, the entirety of humanity needed to rise for that battle, and so those of lesser talents needed to be guided towards enlightenment by those of greater talents.

The Ashkeran response, then, is not to cut down and resent the successful among them, but to heap more and more social responsibilities upon them. The Ashkeran billionaire is obligated to act as a father or mother figure, and to be a pinnacle of virtue that others can model. The Ashkeran society is of course hierarchical and patriarchal or matriarchal, and this relationship is reciprocal."
- historian

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[Estainia]

"Do you want to know what it is like, to hear the screaming voices of millions of desperate people, all calling out your name, begging you for help? Do you?" - Valkyrie-Queen Hildr on one of the downsides of godhood

[Darussalam]

“Woe to the worshipers of the State! Eternal curse for those who hail the State as an earthly image of Perfection! For there is no Perfection but within Allah, and Allah manifests Himself unto none but the Emperor!”
--Imperial Chant, the Great Fitna (1954-1966 AD)

[New Hyannis]

"Never assume the good intentions of a person who proposes a social order in which he imagines himself at the heights."

~ Ezra Rainey, Advocates for Voluntary Associations.

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"People, often very stupid people, hear us say that all men are equals, and they mockingly point to issues such as wealth inequality, intelligence scores, so on and so forth, asking us where we see human equality in that. This is because they do not understand what is meant by equality."

~ Abeshita Holling.

[Peta Kozarska Brigada]

"I'll make a billion accounts and all of them uniformly spout synfederalist rhetoric and why pineapple should be put on pizza to spite the centralines weeeee"
-Oklopnius

[Las Palmeras]

"I could say that you're stupid for not following my cognitive constructions of reality, itself a glimpse of my own context; but I'm not sure if there would be a point in being objective afterwards."
-José Zorilla (Ciobanu)

[Ashkera]

"People, often very stupid people, hear us say that all men are equals, and they mockingly point to issues such as wealth inequality, intelligence scores, so on and so forth, asking us where we see human equality in that. This is because they do not understand what is meant by equality."
~ Abeshita Holling.

"'Oh, we respect their inherent humanity as equal', yes, yes, very good. But to propose a market system following that proposes to enact a hierarchy of rulership based on unequal traits, just without calling it such.

In practical terms choice is limited by capabilities and circumstances, so only the intersection of three sets of liberties matters - that which you are capable of (including limitations on resources), that which you are not prohibited from doing, and that which you wish to do. I have to wonder if such people understand the practical implications of what they mean by equality, either.

Frequently people, often very stupid people, focus solely on the set of prohibitions and imagine that it is the only freedom that matters."

- random man with coffee

"The answer to 1776 is 1918."

- internet troll, referencing the founding of the Fifth Empire and the Cooperative Technocratic State

"Who cares about John Galt - who is Oversight Councillor One? No seriously, who the f**k is he?"

- youtuber

"The problem of foreign governments is that they cannot conceive that government is a sort of social technology, and thus, running on technology from the 1800s, they do not realize there is room for improvement."

- unknown

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