Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Californiae]

"He who advocates violent, naked force and claims it to be the only or the best solution, is the first one you put to the sword." - Gen. Moses Blackwell, F.S.A. (ret.)

[Las Palmeras]

"And...putting on these cat ears is sexy to you? Now what do I do? Should I silently watch you piss in the bathroom or do you want me to give you a dead bird?"
-Magda Zorilla-Nagi, during somebody's birthday

[-the Ukrainian SSR-]

"It is the fool who says that choosing war is the easy path. They know not of what they speak." - Gen. Valshannar

[Valgora]

"YOU FUCKING C**T!"
- A Valgoran playing Trouble in Terrorist Town

[Higher Japan]

"Day 3 of my time in this resistance. Today our forces hit the jackpot, intercepted a supply convoy. No guns or anything, but lot's of supply like food and medicine, something we need. Frank also died today, shot by a trooper. We're losing more than we can recover, we've already lost the east, Brakenhelm square has been under pressure for the past few weeks from the guys. We're not sure how much longer we can hold our position on this, but we need this shuttle station. "- Diary from a rebel soldier, written during the rebel insurgency of Aintaca, which was successfully suppressed.

"Day 15 of this insane group. They're here, the troopers have arrived on the shuttle station. Bombed the hell out of the whole thing, our fighter's didn't even stand a chance. The entire crew has been wiped out, lying all around me are just their dead bodies. Jack's dead, Kelly's dead, they're all dead. I swear that one day, i will overthrow their tyrannical rule. Their deaths will not be in vain. Now, we're being transferred to the last fortress of this movement. Lindon square's building is the last fortification standing, it shall last a thousand years."- Records from a rebel soldier, on the attack on the shuttle station.

[Darussalam]

"The State is nonexistent, yet all-pervasive." - Abu'l Muzaffar Abdul-Qahar Jahangir ibn Muhammad al-Mubarak, describing Darussian Neofeudalism, 2008 AD.

"Yes, we sanction blood feud and servitude, just as how murder and theft is sanctioned in most civilized polities. What is so immoral about utilizing the the available mechanism in our society to improve our well-being and happiness?" - Prince Hatim ibn Abdullah Al-Mutawakkil, to a foreign dignitary, 1981 AD.

[-Costa Luna-]

"Did you ever notice how pale Her Majesty is?"

"Yes? Blue Bloods, they're called that for a reason, they never see sunlight, really, spending too much time hiding from us."

"Doesn't make any damn sense, that."

"Nothing kings and queens do make sense to the common people. I wouldn't trade her eccentricities for those gringos and their broken system of 'government' if you want to call it that, though."

"Yeah, true that. God bless her."

"Forever and always." - Two Lunars, discussing HRM the Queen

[Blakullar]

"Got a new face in the area who behaves suspiciously and speaks in a funny way? WATCH OUT - he might be an Imperial Judicator! If you suspect that your neighbour is a Judicator, report him to your local Consolidated Directorate of State Security office immediately!"

"Being followed by a shady figure in the dark? WATCH OUT - he might be an Imperial Judicator! If you think you, a friend and/or a family member may be endangered by a Judicator, apply for protection at your local Consolidated Directorate of State Security office immediately!"

"WATCH OUT! Imperial Judicators can hide in plain sight and strike when you least expect them to! If you suspect that someone is a Judicator, report him to your local Consolidated Directorate of State Security office immediately!"

~ three examples of posters devised by the KDGB and issued in August 2153 as part of a programme warning against (purported) threats from the Imperial Order of Judicators.

[Euro Asian Republics]

"In your haste to save the world, take great care not to destroy it." - Unknown (Fiamma of the Right) to Connor Kenway while the two briefly met in northeastern Sotia during the Great Northern War, 1770

[Graag Brom]

"In the end I think the Thalmor accidentally accomplished the original goal of the Aldmeri Dominion through their own destruction, putting an elf on the Ruby Throne. This thought puts a doubt in my mind as to whether we truly won the 2nd Great war or if we gave the Thalmor what they wanted albeit at the cost of their own lives. Whatever the case may be the die has been long cast and we all live with the consquences."
Emperor Dinorous Septim I

[Viet Mai]

"Your derisive remarks will never change the fact that the champion of your ideology bowed to us." - General Hàn Quí Xê, Viet Maiese People's Army, 2006

[Akiramori]

"Woman comes to Akiramori. Gets to know the locals. Her genome changes, has kids - RV2081! Many such cases!"
- fake @CocoJRiley tweet

"And...putting on these cat ears is sexy to you? Now what do I do? Should I silently watch you piss in the bathroom or do you want me to give you a dead bird?"
-Magda Zorilla-Nagi, during somebody's birthday

"You brought birds? Sweet! Fake birds, right?"
- executive

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[Karamiko]

"So... bloody... cold! I am a man skilled in bloody fire magic and I still cannot keep myself warm in this place."

-Iskandar the Wanderer, still wearing his Zindagan clothes and refusing to enter any inns that don't look sufficiently premodern.
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"Something has gone terribly wrong. My compass has failed. I am, for all intents and purposes, neither north nor south. All I know is that I have somehow stumbled into a domain even colder than the one I call home. Perhaps I passed the Pole and somehow continued south? I am beginning to think that warmth itself is just an illusion. I think that I have never been warm at all. And yet I know that I have never been so cold in my entire life. My memories are lies."

- The last entry in a lost explorer's journal. He was later rescued by the Karamikoan government, frozen within an inch of his life. The rescuers were somewhat unnerved by the journal's contents, as the country has not been so cold for years.

[Ashkera]

"Yes, yes, it is eugenics in a sense. But do you know how much money it takes to get one opioid-addicted baby off of drugs? Four hundred thousand notes, or about half a million US dollars. An entire decade of a citizen's labor. Who is going to pay for that? - No, be quiet and answer my question. Stand up! Are you going to pay for that? - Yes or no, are you going to pay for it? You will answer the question or we will revoke your press privileges. - Exactly, you won't, because it isn't your country and you want to foist the cost of your foolish foreign morality off on us. Well, we won't have it. We aren't forcibly applying this procedure to anyone. What we have done is smart, it just isn't bound by your hyper-individualist ideology. How do you think we can spend so much money on education? Because we aren't throwing out nation's wealth into enormous feel-good bonfires like you do."
- heated moment in a press conference, 2002

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[Valgora]

"Making money into your god, is one of the worse things anyone can do. Does no one remember what Jesus said? 'You can not serve both God and money.' Or what about when Jesus told us the difficulty for the rich to enter the kingdom of Heaven. 'How hard is it for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven? How hard is it? It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.'

I know that there are plenty of you in this church that are wealthy, and selfish, and greedy. I know that there are at least 3 CEOs, so rich that no poor person could even imagine their wealth. You sicken me. Karl Marx said that religion is useful for the bourgeoisie to keep exploiting, religion shouldn't be useful to those who made their god money.

As a christian, I am obliged to be a socialist."

- Reverend Chinot Raimbaldsson (Chinot Ryall)
Socialist United Methodist minister who immigrated to Valgora
1987

[-the Ukrainian SSR-]

"Are those... T-55s?"

"Yep."

"This just got easy."

"Yep." - Two Ruthenian tankers in a hyper-modern BT6-R EMRG equipped main battle tank facing off against forward elements of the People's Army of Viet Mai in the Pripyat War of 2025

[Blakullar]

"To walk through a lake of fire is to purge weakness through immolation. But what about the weaknesses that never die, that remain with you forever? Do they simply not burn? Oh, they burn, alright... And the flames, fuelled by everlasting regret and self-loathing, do not ever cease to breed. In all places where my sabatons touch solid ground, the lecherous tentacles of this immortal inferno lash out and impregnate the environs, multiplying the illuminant hive, scorching to cinders everything that lies in my path."

~ from an entry into the diary of Grand Curatrix Elena Trotskaya, dated 'September 2159'.

[The Texas Faction]

If you or a loved one has been exposed to fatal radiation, you may be entitled to financial compensation!
-The Texas Faction's PSA regarding recent nuclear meltdown

[Soviet Pripyat]

"Why do you hate us so much?"

"I've never met you before in life to hate you. I don't know your ideals, your hopes, your fears, none of it. I'm here because it is not the soldier's to question. In my humble soldier's opinion kid; We don't hate you, we just don't want fellow Rusyns beholden unto foreign lords who make no real effort to hide what it is they do."

"So you just want us to kneel to you, instead?"

"Never in my life have I desired a man to kneel to me, I'm not one of those stuffed up Imperial bastards, thanks, kid." - Corporal Andrij Horbenko, Pripyati Defense Force, in conversation with Sergeant Andrija Jozić, Ruthenian Army, Pripyat War

[Ashkera]

"You fool. You blind fool. 'Oh, it's just money,' you say. Do you even know what money is? Don't tell me. You'll probably give some socialist-approved answer about how it is a means to oppress the working classes. When we speak of the value of wealth, when we speak of the value of industry, we are talking about what the country itself is able to afford. Money represents a share of the total resources and productive output of the nation. Wasting money isn't just undermining some fat Capitalist's ability to purchase a yacht. It is wasting the time, the energy, and the resources of the nation and its people.

What exactly do you think hospitals are made of? What exactly do you think water rescue craft are made of? What exactly do you think fire engines are made of? Look at the bigger picture. They are made of wealth.

The luxury of wealth is not choosing but not having to choose. Do we build schools or hospitals? Do we fund tanks or surgeries? Do we save this man or that man? On the backs of industry and technology we have slowly worked this triage out of our society. We have enabled ourselves to choose both. Your flippant complaints that our efficiency-obsessed bureaucracy has no heart are measured in platitudes, but our cold calculations are measured in heart surgeries!

'It's only money' - pah! It's only MRI machines! It's only schoolbooks! It's only bridge repair! It's only the blood of our nation!

Get out of my office."
- Theodore Hobbes, bureaucrat

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[Multiversal Venn-Copard]

"Right. So, around a year ago - maybe less - we encountered a civilization that, while not necessarily beyond us in terms of technology or dimensionality, is more than capable of wiping out the entire R0-0 cluster if they devoted themselves to it, just by flooding it with loads and loads of ships. We had a war with them, and we're currently not annihilated because they apparently are able to hold themselves to our treaty."

"Correct."

"They then proceeded to find and declare war on a super-distant civilization roughly as powerful as them, and their war is looking to be as big - if not bigger - than the one that the Yunat's 'Ancestors' recorded nine or ten billion years ago."

"Yes."

"In the meantime, we found a horde of robots capable of infesting our technology and collapsing entire universes in an instant."

"Unfortunately, yes. We've never seen any of them or their interference in several months, however."

"And now a bunch of extra-metaversal pseudo-religious fanatics warped in and are preaching about the end of existence."

"That is precisely what they're doing right now."

"Is there any way this could get any worse?"

"Well, the Iknun are back and - "

"HOW DID I FORGET THAT AAAAAGH"

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- two engineers aboard R0-6-16 Citadel #190 The False Tower

[New Hyannis]

"The thing you ŝtatistoj just don't ever seem to get is that anarchy is not necessarily chaos. It's just...it's the lack of a state, or at least not much of one. A lack of arbitrary laws enforced by layabout busybodies with nothing better to do with their lives than try to run everybody else's. It's life without rulers, but not necessarily without any rules. The only rules a civilized society legitimately needs are the kind of rules meant to make sure nobody hurts anybody else, and nobody is forced to sacrifice life, property, or ideals for somebody else's worldview."

~ Anastasius "Staas" Matsushita.

[Ashkera]

"The thing you ŝtatistoj just don't ever seem to get is that anarchy is not necessarily chaos. It's just...it's the lack of a state, or at least not much of one. A lack of arbitrary laws enforced by layabout busybodies with nothing better to do with their lives than try to run everybody else's. It's life without rulers, but not necessarily without any rules. The only rules a civilized society legitimately needs are the kind of rules meant to make sure nobody hurts anybody else, and nobody is forced to sacrifice life, property, or ideals for somebody else's worldview."

~ Anastasius "Staas" Matsushita.

"The central flaw of Anarcho-Capitalism and Libertarianism is that they depend on the necessary cultural context for political support. It doesn't matter whether these ideas about property are supposedly 'universal' - it only matters whether the alternative, whether a religion or political ideology, or even something more nihilistic, is sufficiently viral to grow until the central units of force maintaining the situation are subverted and the entire system is destabilized."
- Theodore Hobbes, bureaucrat

"Humans are social creatures. To prove it, just look at how badly damaging being 'raised' (or rather, not raised at all) in isolation can be. This collective denial, in the West, of phenomenon that spread or carry over more than one individual, is frankly arrogant. How have they not noticed that many consequences of bad decisions do not only effect the individual? One might say 'it's his right to have his own culture', but culture has consequences, and you have to leave your libertarian fortress some time."
- Theodore Hobbes, bureaucrat, at 3AM

"Freedom is an illusion, Mr. Stock. There is only war and the terrifying power of the State."
- Oversight Councillor One (fictional), Moonshaker (1992)

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[Eriaroon Eugenic Republic]

“We stare at those creatures of the Great Beyond. Those beings whose existence rose based on light from the furious blaze at the top of the world. Those who have their bodies squished, divided into two. Those demons from the realm of darkness, purging all those unfortunate enough to become part of this world. The creatures who claim vast empires, yet whose brains are stunted from birth, their potential limited so that they may suffer ever more. We are Eriaroon, and we wonder, how could such beings come to be. What sin they must have committed in their lives to be tortured so.”
Erialgos Rezalam Shurotoga Shumtuncha-Zelim, Diviner of the Great Beyond

[Hawdhanah]

"Fuck off, my gun barrel is still more potent of an order-bringer than what your community values will ever be."
-anon.