Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Serenvia]

OoC: ... Never setup making them puppets, Senyosu.

Always <3

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Preservation and development of the nation's culture must start in the collective interest in the culture. Education, especially education that is accessible to all walks of life, is the testament to that collective interest. Education as a result must stress the arts and sciences so as to facilitate cultural development as a whole.

―Minister of Culture Mihail Beekar

[Estainia]

"Socialism is a lot like the religion that socialists hate, of all things. Both are innately Humanitarian with the best interests of man at heart." - Cornelius A. Maximilian

"That would be why they hate it, it competes with their beloved vision of the State being God." - Tiberius Andius, bemused.

[Barboneia]

"Hey, I haven't see that sign before. What's it say? ... 'Work harder, not smarter'. Yeah, that's us, all right. We stay the course with stupid." - Dr. Jouko Ruohola, Tumma Kukkula Portal Research Facility.

[Autonomous Eastern Ukraine]

"In other news, a border guard died from radiation poisoning after being dared to steal a brick from the Chernobyl reactor plant."-Newscaster

[Ashkera]

"'Eerily prophetic' is not how I was hoping you would describe the Shadow Path."
- American politician

[Auzkhia]

"The so-called Jugoslav nation is nothing but a plot of Serb encroachment on the sovereignty of the Empire and the Kingdom of Croatia."
-Baron Boroëvić von Bojna

[New Frenco Empire]

"I've always been out on my own. Dad died in Iraq, and Mom was a heroin addict. She died when I was fifteen, just before the bank could take our dilapidated home. I figured I'd rather starve in the street than in some orphanage (after all, this was 2050s Midwest)."

"But, after a while, I didn't care. I could sleep in a dumpster on a rainy night as long as I had Peter to warm me. I could eat the most rotten produce pilfered from a market's refuse, as long as I shared it with him. I can't even remember what put him out in the cold alleys. Fitting, I suppose...I could only remember happy thoughts and concerns with him."

"But that all changed one day. It was yet another rainy night. We sought shelter under this ruined building up Seventh Street. That was when they showed up...
Privileged little assholes, who roamed the streets, looking for people they could terrorize. People who were victimized by the hard times...the recessions, the war. People who couldn't fight back. Who couldn't afford a lawyer, even if you did. There were three of them. These kids...you could tell they were wealthy. Maybe daddy helped run one of the few remaining oil reserves out-of-state. Maybe mommy was a politician. Who knew. All I know is that they found us, asleep in each other's arms. They woke us up by throwing rocks. They derided us for our torn clothes. Our messy hair...the fact that they saw two boys together. We were content with taking the beatings, so long as they would eventually move on. Leave us alone."

But...they didn't. They goaded the youngest, who couldn't have been that much older than me, to grab a nearby pipe 'go a step above'. He hesitated, but not too much...didn't hesitate much at all when he slammed the pipe into Peter's head over, and over, and over, and over again. I...tried to stop him, but the others put a nasty gash on my head. Then I saw...a thick piece of wood, a splinter from one of the fallen supports, I guess. Wanna know what I did? I grabbed it, pushed my way past the others, and stabbed that gussied-up kid straight through his eye. Over, and over, and over, and over again. He was dead, and the others ran off. And so, it seemed...was Peter. Lying in the cold, disgusting muck, eyes staring towards the clouded stars. Young Peter, with crimson flowing down onto his handsome face..."

"There would be no justice for a vagrant like me. They wouldn't have cared if I was defending someone else - I killed the heir of some oil baron or Washington lobbyist. I ran. I suppose it's lucky that those kids who terrorized us didn't think of me as a person, didn't get a good look at my face. I evaded the cops and skipped town. It was a few weeks after that I met Joseph Hightower. He saw me limping by the side of the backroad, and had his driver pull over the limousine. He had the look of someone legitimate, what with his clean, finely-tailored suit, well-trimmed mustache, and solid, unyielding features...but somehow looked like the kindliest father there was. He got out, looked at me for a minute, grinned, and planted one of his hands on my shoulder. Then he led me to his car, away from everything. Next thing I knew, he brought me to his new 'resort' in Kentucky - New Rome. Not sure why Hightower took a fugitive teenager from the streets like me in. I killed somebody. Didn't have a goddamn penny to my name. Now, don't ask me why the richest man in the world was driving through the Arkansas backwoods. Hightower was always a peculiar sort. Everyone knew that."

"But all I know is he got me cleaned up. Saw to my well-being. Gave me an education. I asked him later on why he did all this for me. He would only answer with 'if I were placed in your position and you in mine, I would expect nothing less than this turn of events'. So what did I decide to do? Well...I joined his private army. I wanted to fight for justice, like the kinda sort that was denied Peter and I so long ago. And I fought hard. I wanted to prove myself. Make the old man proud. And I did. He sent me to West Point after he saw that potential. By the time the bombs fell, I commanded every mercenary company on Hightower's payroll. He trusted me enough to ask me for the most daunting task anyone can imagine - he wanted North America now that the nukes threw the political structure into disarray. And you damn well better believe that I gave it to him."

"Now that Hightower has what he wants, and now that I have my own little badge of office, am I happy? I suppose...but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of that last, rainy night, locked in his arms..."

-Grand Marshal Julian Orwell, 2081

[Gigaverse]

"but i thought senyosu was okoyasu before i found out the latter was actually nex

unless senyosu was also nex all along

which would mean

inception"

-me, idfk

[Serenvia]

"but i thought senyosu was okoyasu before i found out the latter was actually nex

unless senyosu was also nex all along

which would mean

inception"

-me, idfk

i can neither confirm nor deny this

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A post-religious society without any culture is doomed to degeneracy. For that reason it is necessary to preserve the culture of their homeland, or at least append it with a new national, collective goal. Once God is taken out of the picture, we must fill that void with love for the nation and our cultural heritage.

―Elizavetta Viserik, Leader of the Opposition and General Secretary of Party for Justice

[Estainia]

"June 6, 2005. Fuck that date. Fucking Ruthenians." - Tsar Alexander Yordanov. What happened, exactly? Saturation fire of every single ICBM and RBM the Ruthenian Union had in its arsenal, some eight thousand warheads. The Empire remains scarred more than a decade later in various places, a testimony to the effectiveness of the bombardment. Of the barrage, the combined fire of the Belkan Empire's Excalibur ABM system, the Mu Empire and the Imperial Army Air Corps, all but seven were shot down, which stuck home at various points in the Empire's heartland.

[Oroloo]

"Nothing remotely human about you? You torture and murder living things for fun, you're a vain being that speaks almost solely of your own glory with no shred of humility or self-restraint, and the only way you know how to assert your superiority is by stepping on everything smaller than you. For a God, especially the God destined to destroy humanity, you are unsettlingly human."

- William Black, encounters with the bizarre under strange circumstance.

[Allancia]

"The true wealth of nations; wine, a workman's sweat and music."

-Edmund Rosencrantz

[Serenvia]

Freedom is necessary to explore the creative spirit of humanity.

―Matias Novak, curator of the National Museum of Vandeis-Kunikseker

[Arenas Blancas]

"I won't abandon you.

Human bonds are broken and corrupted so easily, my old companions whom I thought were ever-loyal and loving turned on me. What makes you different?

I hate this place but if I return home now there's gonna be a noose around my neck. I need to offer my superiors something BIG so they can forgive me.

Why does your kingdom allow women dressed as men to go to war?

I'm a complicated case, but on a whole there's too little people to do just one thing in my country."
-Magda Zorilla Nagi and a self-proclaimed mage, in the Mystical Wilderness Area

[Estainia]

"Gentlemen... This... This gentlemen, is why we have ranks." - Tsar Alexander Yordanov, addressing his immediate subordinates, and all of the Houseguards of Yordanov... who were all also named Yordanov. The Houseguard of Yordanov is 22,800 strong.

(Hapsburgs would be proud)

[Bojikami]

"One way you can see the validity of a socialist state simply by seeing their stance on education. If you'll notice, nations such as ours and in China emphasize the importance of education and developing intellectuals. In contrast to the farce in Cambodia which takes perhaps the hardest stance against education."

"'Crony Capitalism' is overall a false statement due to its assumption that the state and the businesses can exist separately within a capitalist society along with ignoring capital's tendency to concentrate."
-Zhiang Ru, student of Marxism-Leninism at the University of Leningrad

[Orellana]

"It's almost like the political spectrum of this country was designed intentionally to frustrate the pseudo-Socialists who call themselves liberals or Progressives nowadays. First, on the left you have the Partido Liberal, or the Liberal Party. They're socially liberal, in the libertarian sense as it's called. They openly support marriage equality, oppose punishing victimless crimes, and things like that, but have to be about as fiscally tight-fisted as Ebenezer Scrooge, and believe the economy should be minimally regulated, if at all. Then you have the Partido da Democracia Cristã, as it's known locally, the Party of Christian Democracy. They dominate the right wing, and are more open to social programs than the Liberals, but are socially center-right."

~ Irma Archer Portillo.

[City of Allegheny]

"Well, this recession has to be over sometime, right?" - Tyler Bunting, Citizen, 2008.

[Even Less of Mackonia]

"For people who believe in 'Progress' the wrong candidate winning an election is comparable to a believer in natural theology learning about parasitic wasps. What we are seeing here is nothing less than a crisis of faith."

-Z.Maglos

[Blakullar]

"Have you never noticed how some people use quote threads to post their badly-masked personal opinions on matters, using the thin veil of the fourth wall to do so without attracting attention?"
"Now you are prodding the hornet's nest."
"Well, even I need something to prevent myself going mad with boredom..."

~ conversation between General Elena Trotskaya and her father, the Supreme Leader.

[Auzkhia]

"Why do Americans call socialists liberals? Yet, they also call liberals a term which means socialist or anarchist."
-A member of the FDP, Auzkhia's liberal party.

[The Lovable and Always Caring Savages]

"A traitor?! Looks like we may have to axe him a few questions."
- Skorbag IV the Almost Bigger and Badder while listening to his favorite song by Axel Rose and relAXEing

[Estainia]

"Have you ever seen a lantern that burns hope? It is a horrifying sight." - Cornelius Andius Maximilian, multiversal misadventures

[Stalenhag Sweden]

"Oh, come on. It's perfectly fine, it's not going to break off. I tightened it at least twenty times! What could possibly go wrong?" - A maintenance worker, before being crushed by a loose arm on a mecha that fell off, 1979.

[Bereia]

"That's Mister Escrow to you. Doctor Escrow is my nephew the pediatrician. And you don't know any more about socialism than you know about me."
-- Harlan Escrow

"Ph.D. indicates a Doctoral-level education, but as you wish. If the best you have is 'Oh, you're obviously just disagreeing because you're ignorant!' then perhaps mister is more appropriate."

-- Dalton Barbosa.

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"I have found Socialism to be one of the least liberal, most regressive, most oppressive ideologies in the history of the globe. There is nothing especially modern or forward-thinking in a tyranny."

-- President J. Calvin Holbrook.