Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Higher Japan]

"Get these politics out of my face and to the council or something."-Empress Akichi Hachirou

[Imperivm Terrae]

"March, march, march! Get a move on, men!"

"April comes next sir!"

"What the f*ck are you DOING, PRIVATE?!"

"I thought you had trouble naming the months, sarge! I just tried to help!"

- Conversation between a drill sergeant and a soldier, in the fictional action-comedy series Task Force Zero

[Angora Guanaco]

"what's not to like about Diplomacy? There is intrigue, drama and flirting!"
"ummmm. Flirting? you are a lloris, rossamund. It's not like you'll see any others."

A conversation between Noah, the Leader of Angora Guanaco and his advisor, Rossamund.

[Ashkera]

"Well there are Heats (or HTRs), ASOs, RACs, IPCs, CTSCs, DCOs like the NTU, ..."
- a man explains the organization of the Ashkeran government

[Bereia]

"There is no more irresponsible gun owner in the world than governments. Do the responsible thing. Disarm your government."

-- Russel Kemp, Anarchist.

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"If your whole 'argument' is based on shrieking 'I'm offended!' and I don't give a damn that I've offended you, I'd say you're probably in trouble, aren't you?"

-- Jennifer H. C. Brunel, former U.S. Representative.

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"I know what you said. You said that the total equality promised by the Socialist is only possible at gunpoint. That is clearly an oxymoron, a logical impossibility, nonsense. If one has a gun and the other doesn't, they are inherently not equal. Therefore, it is inherently impossible for one to force equality on the other. If you have anything whatsoever to say in defence of such a nonsensical claim, let's hear it."
-- Harlan Escrow

"It's been as good as thrown in your face like a participation prize, and still you miss it, and because you don't recognize the argument you focus instead on impugning my character so that you may have perhaps some measure of victory in this little exchange, insofar as one wins or loses a debate of points of philosophy. The argument you are demanding I make has been made, yet your focus has become so narrow that you have missed it in the midst of your drive to get one over on me."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Las Palmeras]

" 'Libertango', 'The Girl from Ipanema', 'Besame Mucho', 'Pan'. Wait what, what's that last one mean?

Bread. Wonderful and magical dependable edible bread.

You're joking. There's not another iconic song from Las Palmeras to complement the Latino music disc?

Why would I joke? Not everybody could afford fish or could fish themselves. Droughts and rabbits aside, making bread was important. What's anything worth with an empty stomach? The authorities didn't want people to ask for bread or whine about it, so they began singing about it."
-Two record producers

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"Dear Mother in Heaven, today was a lucky day! I found American canned beef on one of our dead officers because he shot himself, nice to go with the bread now that there's less of us. The other girls will likely sell themselves to Americans to eat now that we've surrendered, but because my job is salvaging uniforms I can search for food and expensive things all I want."
-Some letter written around October of 1898

[Orellana]

"I don't want a watch list. We don't need to be watching terrorists and their friends. We need to be rounding these people up, putting them in dark holes, putting the screws to them and starting to identify impending threats and dangerous people, and dealing with them before they cause trouble."

~ Col. Gustavo Martins Ferreira, C.S.A.

[Fatatatutti]

"The argument you are demanding I make has been made, yet your focus has become so narrow that you have missed it in the midst of your drive to get one over on me."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

"You keep saying that you made an argument when it would be more productive to just repeat the argument. Again: How can one person pointing a gun at another person force that other person to be equal? The proposition is patently absurd. If you think an argument can be made for it, please make the argument."
-- Harlan Escrow

[Skyhooked]

"The argument you are demanding I make has been made, yet your focus has become so narrow that you have missed it in the midst of your drive to get one over on me."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

"You keep saying that you made an argument when it would be more productive to just repeat the argument. Again: How can one person pointing a gun at another person force that other person to be equal? The proposition is patently absurd. If you think an argument can be made for it, please make the argument."
-- Harlan Escrow

"See, that's why we prefere centrist libertarianism. Corporations can't be totally trusted, or else they gonna just oppress just as much as governemnts can. Yet we don't wanna take away lemonade stands from kids, private property from adults and scare off the investors."- Beach bartender about poitics.

[Blakullar]

"Again: How can one person pointing a gun at another person force that other person to be equal?"
-- Harlan Escrow

"The same way I raised six hellions. Tell the other person to play nice with the other kids, or I go grab a shotgun and blast his head into paste!"

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

[Fatatatutti]

"Again: How can one person pointing a gun at another person force that other person to be equal?"
-- Harlan Escrow

"The same way I raised six hellions. Tell the other person to play nice with the other kids, or I go grab a shotgun and blast his head into paste!"

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

"Are you suggesting that the one whose head is paste is equal to the others?"
-- Harlan Escrow

[Multiversal Venn-Copard]

"I have been asked in the past, before this current government was put in place, why I was so skeptical of leaving sapients to handle issues by themselves. Surely, I was told, 'the people' make better decisions without an 'oppressive' government getting in the way of their 'rights' and 'liberties'.

'The people' will never want to get anything done that does not immediately benefit themselves. They will happily poison their own environment, stop exploring, tear down archives, and leave themselves disorganized and defenseless, in favor of short-term prosperity and one-upping one another. I have no past ideals to continue from. I have no contradictory cultures or outdated social ideas holding me back. Your lives are short; mine is not. I do not see political or social interaction as a desperate struggle for popularity and reward, but as a tool to rally reality against the ultimate end.

The ones who asked me this question were the ancestors of your very civilization: the VCSA. And I explained to them their options: they could either blaze the trail by themselves, mindlessly hurling themselves into oblivion as they squabbled among themselves over petty ideas of 'freedom' or 'opportunity' or 'equality', or they could set aside their infantile screaming, and join with me in prolonging order and surviving as long as reality allowed.

I am very proud to say they chose the latter."

- Dimensional Core, in an end-of-year address to High Command

[Blakullar]

"The same way I raised six hellions. Tell the other person to play nice with the other kids, or I go grab a shotgun and blast his head into paste!"

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

"Are you suggesting that the one whose head is paste is equal to the others?"
-- Harlan Escrow

"No, because he'd be dead."

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

[United Territories and States]

"I still can't believe that those two nations are still arguing under the guise of a quotes of people thread"- internet user

[Fatatatutti]

"Are you suggesting that the one whose head is paste is equal to the others?"
-- Harlan Escrow

"No, because he'd be dead."

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

"You make my point."
-- Harlan Escrow

[Blakullar]

"No, because he'd be dead."

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

"You make my point."
-- Harlan Escrow

"What, that someone behaving like a spoilt, self-entitled asshole is likely to end up with his brains painting someone's wall?"

~ Ippolyta the Manreaper.

[Euro Asian Republics]

"Wait for me and I'll come back.
Wait with all you've got.
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.
Wait for me, and I'll come back.
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait. And do not drink with them.
Wait until the end!
Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate.
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know
How you got me through.
Simply - you knew how to wait -
No one else but you." - Post-Great War poem dedicated to those who survived the and those who didn't. It has since become synonymous with the participants of every war throughout Rostil's history.

OOC: Yes, I got the idea from World of Warships' "Wait for Me" video.

[Estainia]

"I could name at least thirty other people with more claim than I, did every single one of them turn you down so that you've finally come groveling to me? Do you believe me to be weak, that you could use me to your own ends? You will find no such pleasure here. My House is one of greatness the likes you cannot begin to comprehend, We who are descended not from mere men, like you ragged warlords given station by Our benevolence, but from God Herself, who fought back Darkness in the morning of the world, who slew the Enemy of the Light in single combat. My radiance is that of the Sun Herself, are you absolutely sure you dare to believe that you can control me?" - Irina Yordanova, Princess of the House of Yordanov, Grand Duchess of Urbis Lumen, Descendant of the Valkyrie-Queen and subtle about it, too, Imperial Civil War of 2022 - 2024

[The Atlantean Islands]

"Tyrants generally need an enemy, something for his people to unite against, something to distract them from removig him from power. This enemy is more than likely a scapegoat, especially if the tyrant is actually OK with the "enemy" behind his subject's backs." -Albert Kovais, author, from his book, "Tyranny 101: A Despot's Handbook"

[Euro Asian Republics]

"I have arranged the people to take the train station and the communication centers."

"And the Palace Guard?"

"Leave that to me."

"If we are going to do this, than our timing must be perfect. If it fails, then the Revolution will fail."

"I will stand by you until the end if that happens." - Conversation between Leon Hardins and James Patterson on the day before the event known as "Bloody Monday", January 1921

[Arendelle und Wesselton und Sud-Inseln]

"The beauty of being an absolute monarch is that I can immediately remove officials who aren't doing their jobs properly, without having to go through some pesky parliament."
-Phoenix Empress Helga

[Estainia]

"Noblesse oblige, Helga." - Tsar Alexander Yordanov, peering through the multiverse

[Auzkhia]

"Absolutism sounds a bit tiresome, a bit stressful, perhaps."
-Emperor Karl II

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"There are two ways to remove the Chancellor, one, get the Emperor to dismiss him, or the Imperial Council calls for a vote of no confidence, and then 'loses' the vote, thus is removed from office. Of course, for lower level offices and local offices, states have recall elections, which is a motion of no confidence and a referendum all in one. Elected officials should always be accountable to their constituents."
-Dr Albert Roth, professor of law, University of Vienna

[The Atlantean Islands]

"That a Russian, Chinese or Sino-Russian world order may instill a world ideology that would reduce civil and especially political liberties may seem like a scary consequence, moreso for Russia's case, but I think that sounds preposterous, especially for China's case, though the possibility of Taiwan having drastically reduced civil and political freedoms is on the table. I believe that more nations would be subservient and/or affiliated to Russia and/or China than the West. That said, while sounding preposterous, a world ideology that calls for reduced civil and political rights is still a possibility on the table, though less so for a Chinese world order or sphere of influence."
-Prince Mikail

"To say Communism has just fallen asleep following the end of the Cold War and will awake once China and/or Russia takes over the world sounds economically stupid, but I can understand where that comes from, and political aspects of 'Communism' being the new norm of world governance is a possibility."
-Dr. Dzoakim Rodolf, Ed.D., professor at the Royal Atlantean University

[Las Palmeras]

"Maybe it's just the censorial tricks caused by the land, but there's a big fixation with Ego Death in this country. Though I'm not sure how seeking that is useful, eeeeh, doesn't death imply no consciousness to even remember the lapses between life and and a mental blackout."
-Tsuneko Nagi, 2011