Quotes of people in your nation MK. IV

[Greater Mackonia]

"Verily a life lived not as thunderstorms is not lived at all."

-Z.Maglos

[Bereia]

"It seems every time you turn around, somewhere in Europe there have been race riots, or mass rape, or some other shit like that, but we are supposed to look to them as an ideal of civilization?"

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

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"In early American national politics, the Vice-President was largely decorative. If you wanted to know who was likely to be the next offering from the President's party, you didn't look at the man he'd given an almost useless office as a sop for being politically useful. You looked at his Secretary of State. This changed as the Presidency became more active, more involved in domestic areas it was never meant to influence. Here, it varies. You have former Secretaries of State vying with Governors and Senators, and the odd businessman and retired general."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Estainia]

"Democracy is pointless, you have no real voice, it's a lie, a charade to keep you placated and servile to your masters." - Stephen Jones

[Bereia]

"Democracy is pointless, you have no real voice, it's a lie, a charade to keep you placated and servile to your masters." - Stephen Jones

"True, when you let the whole thing become controlled by the elite class who seek to be your masters. When people become complacent it emboldens those who would rule them."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Ruridova]

"It seems every time you turn around, somewhere in Europe there have been race riots, or mass rape, or some other shit like that, but we are supposed to look to them as an ideal of civilization?"

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"Oh? Should we instead look to Terranova with its tendency to preemptively invade foreign countries on flimsy causes, frequent mass shootings, neverending political gridlock, days-long sentences for rapists, overflowing prisons, and intrusive cybersurveillance programs?"
- Leopold Dietkrech

[New Frenco Empire]

"The ideological utopia is the worst of all dystopias."

-Ygritte Kline

[Bereia]

"Malevolence is not the issue. Most people mean well when they cast a ballot, and they vote for what they perceive to be the national interests. They don't want to harm or exploit anybody else in any way. The issue, across the political spectrum, is ignorance."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen, explaining voter apathy and low turnouts in America and elsewhere.

[Bojikami]

"If you don't miss Anthony Regovishki you have no heart. If you want him back, you have no brain."
-Emile Janzi

[Gorgashia]

"How do I endure time? Hmmmm..... Not sure if I can relate. Tell me if I do. I am content to observe, watch stars, watch birds, watch things like you do things you do. Watching until rain and wind erode everything. Even watch rain and wind as wind and rain do it. I like sitting and watching things. Like girl climbing up to be a woman on my side.* Is currently wrestling a mountain lion... Girl won. Surprising. Mountain lion was good at killing men and women. Sapling deeply desires to become a full tree, I suppose. Hm? That's how you try to endure time as well? Hmm... I suppose I have comfort in knowing I will eventually pass. Rain and wind does not harm your kind. No offence meant, of course. Taking my marked stone to remember me by? I'm flattered. Take it. Little peoples all went to the others below, but some come to visit. Again, like gir-, woman now, climbing me. Just take bottom half, might not notice it is missing when proper visit to me arrives... Be careful if you ever take it to stars and blackness above when world ends."

- Gorgashian Mountain Spirit, conversing with Gwenaël Maximilian. Yes, that one. The oldest member of the prestigious House Maximilian of Rostil.

*When an Urban Gorgashian reaches the age of 16, they have to go to the mountain of their lineage, take a rock from it, carve it into a proper totem, hunt a buffalo, drain some of its blood into a container, go back to the same mountain, find a crack in the rock, put the totem on the crack and pour blood onto the totem in a way that it also leaks into he crack. Then, they celebrate achieving adulthood with their community. It's the Mountain-Gorgashi version of a Bar/Bat-Mitzvah. Just with more death/risk of dying. Although, if they ever lose the totem, they have to do it all over again, but without the party at the end. Which sucks.

[Multifarity]

"It seems every time you turn around, somewhere in The USA there have been race riots, or mass rape, or some other shit like that, but we are supposed to look to them as an ideal of civilization?"

-Cub reporter, Squirts Macintosh

[Saurisisia]

"Gentlesaurs, I give you my plan to kick the planet's ass!"

"This is like, the greatest battle plan ever."
~ SSgt. Horatio Plesius, Unstable Sergeant, giving his plan for preventing an apocalypse that he thought was goung to happen

[Xekliv]

"To be an elf is to live it up.
To be a xeklivian is to tear it down."

-- Ruchalus, xeklivian god of war

[Horizont]

"Technology has progressed beyond what were two years ago our wildest dreams. It is rather amazing, I think. But at the same time, tactics and strategy have regressed by a good sixty years.

But who am I to complain? I'm probably one of the people that knows most about the Second World War amongst the entire high command, and I can't say I don't very much enjoy this."

--- Adalwolfa v. Kaiserberg

[Las Palmeras]

"Mom watches Mexican or Venezuelan telenovelas, or she watches doramas. Mostly because she says the dramas here are very boring."
-Celeste Zorilla Nagi (2029)

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"Of course I have time for TV! Yeah, Palmeran soaps are notoriously 'boring' for some. Possibly because they're an imitation, a maximum form of flattery: towards the now-gone Soviets, like that guy who used montages a lot or Tarkovsky. Very little characters. Colors and settings are shot on film in excessively long ways, talks are very long. It's a bit more 'Expressionist' than it it 'Explicit'. "
-The Office Lady

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

"The most fun you can have with your pants on."
-An anonymous veteran's description of combat

[Euro Asian Republics]

"The pages of history have been stained with blood; more blood than you can imagine. I only hope that these treaties bring an end to these constant deaths... for future chapters in history." -- Irene Ellet, Saint Ark Tribune, on the Treaties of Dijhan, Stier, and Selene; the treaties that, once signed, officially ended the Great War, 1920.

[Estainia]

"Ms Ellet was the first of our kind, the one willing to go the extra mile to get the story, to tell it how it really was. It was dangerous and it was daring, above all it was needed. She told the story of the Legionnaires on the Genoa Line, she told the story of the Useans in the Asrani Desert, she went where they went, went through the hell they went through. The first war correspondent she covered the Great War in its whole, and dare I say had she not been an older woman when the Adriannic rolled around, she'd have covered that one too." - Dominik Rudawski, Correspondent for the Novograd Gazette, wrote their story Tribute to the First which appeared in the April 14th, 1946, Ellet herself passed on the 12th, one of the first of the 'Greatest Generation' to do so after the war.

[Saurisisia]

"How the hell are we supposed to get in there?"

"There's gotta be a way, how'd the Crimson Talon do it?"

"Do I look like the Crimson Talon?"

"No, I meant he could get in. How do you think he would do it?"

"He'd use his grapple thing. I guess he'd go in through the main tower."

"Great. Have you got one?"

"No."

"Okay, let me get this straight: the only way in would be through one of the main cooling tunnels, right?"

"'Spose."

"The tunnel full of boiling water and poisonous gas?"

"Yeah, we could build a boat."

"And the gas?"

"Gasmasks?"

"So, let's get this straight: you geniuses think that the best way in is to build a boat, sail across a boiling ocean, wearing gasmasks to stop us from getting killed?"

"Yeah, let's do it!"
~ Two dumb Jurassville street thugs and their smart, sensible friend talking about how to get into an abandoned smelting factory nearby (also referring to a local vigilante in their conversation)

[Massena]

"Back in 1882, the standard estimate was that only ninety-five million barrels of oil remained unharvested globally. As use in those days was something like twenty-five million barrels a year, the last days of oil would strike well before the turn of the century if the estimates were correct. 1900 came and went, oil was still with us, but a new estimate from Scientific American in 1919 said it would all be gone within twenty years, so right at the cusp of 1940. Ten years after that deadline, oil still showed no sign of being depleted, and in fact the predictions were 100 billion barrels had not yet been harvested, fully ten times what was predicted way back in 1882. By 1956 the phrase "peak oil" came into use, people saying crude oil productions worldwide would peak and start into a decline by 1970. By 1980 however, the estimates of remaining reserves were up to 648 billion barrels, and in 1993 they were up again to just shy of one trillion barrels. Seven years on, and it had crested the trillion mark. As recently as four years ago, estimates have 1.2 trillion barrels of oil not yet harvested globally in proved reserves."

~ Amanda Scarborough, spokeswoman for Scarborough Oil.

[Ruridova]

"With all that oil, why shouldn't we drill away?"

"Do you carry a concealed firearm, ma'am?"

"Yes."

"Does the fact that you have this gun mean that you open fire?"

"I'm not sure I understand what you're saying."

"Do you just walk into a place- any place- and start opening fire at random, just because you have the gun?"

"Well of course not."

"Why?"

"Because it wouldn't do me any good, and would in fact do me and the people around me harm. It would also be highly irresponsible."

"And that's why we shouldn't mindlessly keep drilling and burning oil. It makes some money in the short-term, yes, but once the oil runs out, a cast of people dependent in that reservoir are unemployed. And eventually, we will hit peaks oil- and one day we will run out, and if we should still be dependent on oil when that happens, then we'll be in serious trouble. In addition, the process of acquiring, refining, distributing, and using oil contributes to the greenhouse effect, which leads to global climate change, which is likely to cause a wife variety of unpleasantness- larger storms, larger droughts, mass extinctions, and rising sea levels, among other things. As a result, it is irresponsible and foolish to remain dependent on fossil fuels instead of getting rid of our fossil fuel addiction."
- a Terranovan oil industry official and Governor of Meerselen Margaretha van Zwarte

[Bojikami]

"As of 2022, gas-fueled cars in Bojikami have been completely replaced by electrically powered ones."
-The Proletarian Times, a Bojikamiian newspaper, 2028

[Xekliv]

"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

-- Imperial Haemonculus

[Saurisisia]

"According to statistics, we should have enough oil to last us at least for another half-century and by then, hydrogen and electric powered vehicles should be completely affordable and practical for everyday use by everyone."
~ A geological surveyor to the board of Plesio Petroleum

[The Multiversal Species Alliance]

"I bench solely for the day I die and join the war eternal."
-Pvt. Lutz, Imperial Legionnaire

[Estainia]

"My fellow retards, we are no longer allowed to have an opinion on our conditions, as other people with these conditions may be offended. Thank you." - Caelius Mucianus, Impero-Roman, Schizophrenic