Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Revolutionary Equestria]

"A revolutionary is made not born. This is done through loss, realization, and rebuilding. The revolutionary struggles, with her inner demons or those beyond, to only realize where and why they have came for her. To only, with the fire of a dragon so ancient, blow it all away in flame. And begin to build a new upon those ashes."
-Minister of Enlightenment, Brightpath. In his book, Animae Et Rerum Novaruml

[Eclius]

"A revolution is all similar to other types of messes, the more attention you pay, the messier, the more benefits you assure them, the cleaner.......because I'm quite certain that even the head of the 'revolution' could use a decent car, a decent estate and a decent life style."

-Eclisian top 10 trending book-turned tv show, The Chair of Blood Season 2

[Euro Asian Republics]

"Heads up, pilots. The Navy's here. Welcome aboard, pilots. We'll try not to embarrass you guys too badly." - Typhoon pilot Capt. Igor "Python" Falkenrath of the EAAF 57th Air Force 12th Fighter Wing 1st Squadron "Golem" upon him and the rest of his squadron being joined by Is-24A Apalis multirole fighters of the EAN 3rd Carrier Fleet 1st Air Wing 13th Squadron "Bewitchers", 2026

[Las Palmeras]

"Japan was responsible for the Palmeran Revolution, or at least some consequences of WW2 which seem separate. In 1953, a lot of rape and rape-murder allegation cases of the US Army in Japan from the occupation period went into journalistic attention. The information was leaked by the Palmeran's Special Police Bureau: the Palmerans wanted to punish the Americans, they participated in the Pacific War and they wanted access to milling technology to produce tractors and pipes in Japan and Germany. American officials got cold feet just before accepting the proposal. I'm really unsure how the Palmerans got their hands on that information, though it was likely through agents posing within their Red Cross. The Americans issued diplomatic pressure and weakened the Special Police Bureau. Ironically this gave the M26J guerrilla and the poor anti-American military aristocrats a window of chance."
-Tsuneko Nagi/Zorilla

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"The Ministry of State Security would've let me see folios, after marriage I'm a citizen. But the price of 'damaging national security' elevates the cost to access per folio as the security level increases. And of course I'd have had to petition to see a file -which itself may take months to be accepted- not an entire archive."
-Tsuneko Nagi/Zorilla, on investigating

[Katzenstaat]

"Darwinism is truth. Science and technology are beneficial. Businesses, free trade and work are honorable. Censorship and conformism are evil."

[Stellar Colonies]

"There it is, men and women. The homeworld of the Alphians, invaders and destroyers of many human worlds. They almost reached Earth itself before being stopped cold in their tracks. If we had not prevented it, they would've obliterated everything above the bedrock.

Humanity is almost triumphant, because we outnumber them, we have better technology, and we are better in implementing war.

Let's get these alien scum."


- Jennifer Erdenstien, shortly before the Purge of Alphius
Date: 6-15-3126

[Soviet La Union]

"I don't fight for the retarded government or their pitiful ideas of communism; I fight to get rubles to feed my wife and 3 children. Fighting for just idea in brain means you're pizdets in the head. It's crazy, blin. Comrade commissar always say: 'hey you Dimitri, charge into rebel trench for glorious motherland and socialist revolution!' Bah! Complete bull!"
- Yefreytor Dimitri Chekov, soldier at the 3rd Guards Rifle Division

[Darussalam]

Of all charades, nothing is greater and more pervasive than the charade of the Self. So drain your Self, discard it, and fill the empty cup with nothing but the essence of the Beloved. Upon drinking the Beloved’s wine then recall also the words of the wise, ‘Love greatest is love to love itself, love virtuous is love maddening and paralyzing, love to all and love to none’. To glimpse the Veil is to cast down one’s mind, and to remove it before one’s eyes is to lose your Self.

- Al-Fayrūzabādī, scholar-mystic

[The Other Power]

"Fight for Equality, Die for Equality, Achieve Equality, Live in Oppression, Rinse and Repeat."- Anti-Revolution graffiti

[Democratic Exodian Territories]

"Nothing can ever truly destroy us. You may raze our sanctuaries and disassemble our weapons. But our hopes, dreams and memes- which are eternal throughout the mightiest of good in this world- will always come back stronger and more ready to troll than ever before."

-Motto of the Kekistani Bureau of Memetic Warfare, Exodian Division

[Las Palmeras]

"The thing about the Radicalized Linguistic Turn is that it can't offer alternatives and doesn't even care for that; it's biggest achievement from 1899 to 1920 was for the very first time shaking a European domination of history from a former colony, but it wasn't revolutionary. The nihilism of the aftermath of American occupation and another major population drop gave it a very devil-may-care attitude over the sense of human progress and a disregard for universal normativity. Fortunately for some, one could argue it's Literary Philosophy."
-Federico López Jiménez, Mexican critic, 1989

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"I fail to understand why we're so hated. Are the colonial powers so sensitive they need to hold over an objective truth for the ideals they don't practice abroad? Are the creoles and mestizo ideolouges like Palma and Vasconcelos so dependent on European historians that their own racialism pales out? Our school has liberated all of humanity- now everybody can pick their realities where they do meet their ideals."
-Raúl the Mad Monk, 1931

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"The Moral Relativity among some Palmeran thinkers isn't even fully Western or angsty. The mass Chinese immigration infused a very Confucian sense of self and that was coupled with the Neo-Manichean Church's appropriation of the Buddhist 'kuu'."
-Tsuneko Nagi/Zorilla

[Blakullar]

"General, if I may ask - why are we hiding all these oil barrels on this planet?"
"YOU'LL see! These gastropod fucks are in for a real nasty surprise! They won't even live to think twice about messing with the Manreaper! MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!"
"...and you're going to make them pay by hiding barrels of oil on their home planet."
"Indeed! You could say that I will be victorious after my grand plan comes to fruition. Now keep stacking!"

~ a Death Knight and Ippolyta the Manreaper converse with each other, c. 2165.

[Crysuko]

"Silent one, Silent one. 4878. 4878. 4878. 0 0 send, 0"
"Silent two, silent two, 5861. 5861. 5861. 0 0 send 0"
"Silent zero, silent zero. 395. 395. 206. 704. 1,2 1,2 send 1,2

Numbers station chatter intercepted near the city of Senerra. strangely unencrypted.

[Estainia]

"It's an affront to my eyes, and the eyes of all sensible peoples." - Cornelius Andius

[Euro Asian Republics]

"Albireo Squadron, this is Golem Lead. Welcome to the Azhadstan Area of Operations. We've had a busy couple of weeks. Glad we got some Vipers from the Rock in the Northern Neptunis to join the party. The terrain here is far different from what you guys are used to on Port Royal Island. Another important thing is, is that there is no training this time, guys; we're doing it for real. The AO is extremely hot and the FSAF, RAF, and EAAF AWACS birds will be tasking you guys heavily for the duration of your stay in the region. You'll be earning your combat pay here, pilots. Alright, Albireo Squadron. Get started up and get airborne following flight plan. Today's sortie will be to get you guys introduced to the AO. I and the rest of my flight will provide information on your new home. We have several Californian, British and Eurasian Special Forces teams operating in the region to help prepare for the Tripartite Coalition's ground forces. When called upon, be prepared to support those SF teams, and eventually the rest of boots on the ground. Stay alert and stay alive. Golem Lead, out." - ERB Tornado ADV pilot Sören "Edelweiss" Gunther of the EAAF 57th Air Force 12th Fighter Wing 1st Squadron "Golem" (flight lead), informing the F-16C/D Fighting Falcon pilots of the EAAF 26th Air Force 1st Fighter Wing 1st Squadron "Albireo" upon the latter arriving in northern Azhadstan during the first weeks of the Calo-British-Usean effort to strike back at the World Liberation Army, 18 October 2003

[Tahuriya]

What is peace? The ability to come to terms with each other, to accept the fact that we are but human. This cannot be forced. This is why, in this country, we value freedom so much, because without freedom, peace cannot flourish. Peace that is forced is not peace.

- Khayr al-Sadaqa, first Prime Minister of the Republic of Tahuriya, before the institution of federalism

[Terra Britania]

"You have to realise that not everyone wants to come to terms with others. Indeed, freedom is something that every man and woman on this Earth deserves, and peace as well, and we in the government try our very best to give the populace both, but true peace cannot be applied effectively due to the inherent nature that every human being has inside him. People will always find reasons to deceive, to steal, to hurt, to kill; it is how nature made us. That is where the laws of man come in; the police, the military, the courts, the government, they struggle to maintain the delicate balance between order and chaos. A forced peace may not be true peace, but it is peace nonetheless."

- Samantha Edmonton-Jäger, Baroness Jäger of Gibraltar, OM, PC, MP, FRS, former Prime Minister of the British Empire (2007 – 2011); in an interview with the BBC, asked "what, for you, is peace?", aired 17 October 2008

[Estainia]

"There a particular reason we didn't follow the Useans into Azadstan?"

"Yeah, we were reconquering Alisonia."

"Oh, yeah that's a good reason." - Imperial peasants with a higher sense of self-awareness than the average peasant discussing politics.

[Valgora]

"I don't think we're supposed to land like this. I'm pretty sure the wheels are supposed to on the ground, not pointing upwards."
- Bjargmundur Arnesson, aircraft gunner, talking to the Pilot. 1942.

[Fatatatutti]

"TFOA (things falling off aircraft) reports have tripled since General Castro-Stalina took command of the Air Cavalry Brigade. It is believed that the increase is not because of a lapse in maintenance standards but rather because the General is more apt to encourage reporting of such incidents."
-- newspaper report

"I'm no expert but I assume that most of the parts on an aircraft are important."
-- General Marie-Louise Castro-Stalina, referring to the above newspaper report

"We have a saying about our best pilots: They could fly a brick if you strapped an engine on it. The General likes to have as many parts attached as she can get."
-- Lieutenant April "Ape" Dancer, helicopter pilot in the Air Cavalry Brigade, referring indirectly to General Castro-Stalina's prowess as a pilot

"She'll get us home if she has to carry what's left of the chopper in a bucket."
-- anonymous trooper, referring to Lieutenant Dancer

[The Sukhothai]

"Communism is not something that the conditions of reality must be adjusted to. Communism is a living and organic ideology which adapts to the needs of each revolutionary scenario."

"Bloodshed is not our preferred motive. If it were possible, I would prefer to be elected into government and rip the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie apart from within. However, as these past few years have shown us, this is impossible. The Generalissimo which strangles the Sukhothai worker and nation with a cast-iron noose must be resisted with full force and toppled with the fury of 30 million men and women scorned!"
-Tharn Visalyaputra, Revolutionary and First Chairman of the United Socialist Cantons of the Sukhothai

[Estainia]

"You are of the opinion that We depend upon our ancestor's sword to undo our enemies. We do not. The sword We hold right now is not ƿynnhildfrænd, your traitorous blood is unworthy of being spilled upon its noble, divine steel. This is the sword of Otto Weibe, which he had no name for. Who understood things of loyalty that you cannot begin to comprehend, who died for Us against Our wishes, such was his grade among men. You have angered Us, 'lord'. Now, We shall break your body and turn your spirit over to the one whom even he has not sullied honor in comparison to you. Ready yourself." - Tsar Aleksandr Yordanov, one of the few recorded instances of his use of the royal we, though that has an entirely different meaning in the Empire, speaking in pre-battle parley to Lord Isoif Mila

[Grenopia]

"With but a day to go until democracy weaves its path, sets its fateful course, let us protectors of our free system know that our efforts in this campaign have not been in vain. I talk not necessarily of electoral success, but of the success of our most democratic structures, our Presidency and our Congress, in that the views of the majority and the minority alike are accurately represented, and that the essential format of pure, unedited debate is conserved. For if we achieve that, we shall achieve perfection.
Then soon to be President Thomas Brandt addressing his supporters on the night before (30th November) the Presidential election of 1954 (1st December).

[Fatatatutti]

"On tonight's episode of Alphonse and Fish, Alphonse's cousin Godzilla comes to visit. After an altercation with Fish, Godzilla stomps off in a huff to destroy Tokyo and mayhem ensues. Then, on a special crossover episode of Baking with Alphonse, Godzilla helps Alphonse make cupcakes. Godzilla goes over the top with the piping bag and mayhem ensues again."
-- TV Guide

[Estainia]

"In my spare time, sparse as it is. I GM for my children's games of Labyrinths and Lamias*." - Grand Prince Peter Yordanov

*D&D, if D&D were based on classical mythology.