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No committee ever has, or ever will, run a revolution.
— Annie Kenney
We should have known better after the first war.
— Charles de Gaulle
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
— Theodoor Roosenvelt
Isn't it dreadful? Here we are, two officers of the Empire, discussing how best to murder our Emperor.
— Cai E
Why Die for Wallonia?
— German Anti-War Slogan
I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
— François Darlan
France has no friends, only interests.
— Jacques Doriot
Germany has lost a battle, but Germany has not lost the war.
— Wilhelm Keitel
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
— Emilio Mola
My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.
— Anton Denikin
My honor is my loyalty.
— Heinrich Himmler
Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously.
— Unknown
Golf always makes me so damned angry.
— George V
Too bad about the young blood.
— Erich Luddendorf
If you don't have ammunition, you have bayonets! Fix bayonets!
— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Controlled nationalism can create art, while uncontrolled nationalism can only create hatred.
— Ferdinand III of Italy
Why can't I play with my friends today mom?
— Michael I
The only thing more heroic than death in battle is death furthering the goal of Romania.
— Corneliu Codreanu
You might forget the gas and shell, but you'll nev'r forget the Mademoiselles.
— Mademoiselle From Armentières
Just blow your nose, and dry your tears, We'll all be back in a few short years.
— Mademoiselle From Armentières
The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution?
— Maximilien Robespierre
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
— Léon Blum
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.
— Ferdinand Foch on The Treaty of Tours
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
— Karl Marx
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add that the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
— Karl Marx
Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life.
— Mikhail Bakunin
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
— Eric Arthur Blair
To remain a great nation or to become one, you must colonise.
— Léon Gambetta
Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile— To serve your captives' need.
— The White Man's Burden
I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.
— Franz Joseph I
Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
— Eugene V. Debs
I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as the Empire keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
— Walter Elias Disney
It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed.
— Eugene V. Debs
You, the Poles, have a funny nature. When the people going along the road are attacked by a dog with its insistent and noisy barking, you immediately feel like jumping off the vehicle, standing on all fours and starting to bark back at it.
— Józef Piłsudski
France cannot be France without greatness.
— Charles de Gaulle
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.
— Nikola Tesla
There are two kinds of scientific progress, the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries.
— Nikola Tesla
What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day announce that they have no further need for us?
— Except, Arguments against Automation 1921
And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well?
— Excerpt, Pope Gregory XVII, 1922 Papal Dispensation
We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers, the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold and release them to usher in a new era of glory.
— Excerpt, The Doctrine of Sociogenetics, 1862
Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded.
— Albert Einstein
Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?
— Excerpt, Combat Amalgamate Sapience Study, 1932
Energy is the currency of the future.
— Sir Thomas Edison
In former times the energy monopoly was called The Power Company; we intend to give this name an entirely new meaning.
— Sir Thomas Edison
By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
— Sir Thomas Edison
Super Event epigraphs
In order to get what we've got, we have, in effect, traded these people out of what was the most important thing on earth to them - the feeling of being needed and useful, the foundation of self-respect.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (accompanies "THE AUTOMATION CRISIS")
I am obliged to report that, at the present moment, the Russian Empire is run by lunatics.
— Maurice Paleologue (accompanies "RUSSIA WINS THE ORBIT WARS")
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
— H. G. Wells (accompanies "BRITAIN WINS THE ORBIT WARS")
A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all. I cannot tell you when that explosion will occur, but I can tell you where. Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans will set it off.
— Otto von Bismarck (accompanies "THE GREAT BALKAN WAR")
In this sense, empires do not fall; they rather fall apart,usually very slowly, though sometimes remarkably quickly.
— Donald J. Puchala (accompanies "THE IMPERIAL CIVIL WAR")
With this prinicple, you may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
— Nikola Tesla (accompanies "THE SECOND GREAT WAR")
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
— Thomas Paine, The Crisis No. I. (accompanies "THE SECOND NATIONAL AWAKENING")
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
— Smedley Butler (accompanies "THE RECLAMATION WAR")
We are for the Empire because the Empire is at once our sword and our shield. It is the greatest guarantee of the world's peace, of true civilisation. We are for the Empire because we are true to Europe, to liberty, to ourselves.
— Billy Hughes (accompanies "THE GREAT WAR CONCLUDES" League of Nations Victory)
Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target.
— Siri Hustvedt (accompanies "THE GREAT WAR CONCLUDES" Pacte Revanchiste Victory)
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
— Blood Meridian (accompanies "THE THIRD TIME OF TROUBLES")
Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.
— Albert Camus (accompanies "THE ATOMIC AGE BEGINS")
If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Earth as British Red as possible.
— Cecil Rhodes (accompanies "THE EMPIRE UNITED")
And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
— H.G Wells (accompanies "THE GREAT MARTIAN WAR")
Super Technology Quotes
If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
— Douglas Coupland (accompanies "Decanter Production Process")
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind
— Winston Churchill (accompanies "Commonality Consensus")
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
— Proverbs 5:21 (accompanies "The National Panopticon")
Which came first, God or Man? If Man came first, then they'll make God. By doing so, they become one.
— Interface (accompanies "The God Engine")
Content is the Philosopher's Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.
— Thomas Fuller (accompanies "Materiosynthetics")
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
— Rossum's Universal Robots (accompanies "Constructed Intelligence")
Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave.
— Joseph Hall (accompanies "Recursive Immortality")
Capitulation Messages
The Long Peace begins to crumble
— World Tension Low
The Drums of War grow louder
— World Tension Medium
Peace is now but a fleeting memory
— World Tension High
The lamps are going out all over the World
— World at War
The American revolutionary fire burns a little brighter.
— Wild West nations capitulation
The American utopia lives no more.
— SCA capitulated
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about.
— SCA triumphs over the UCA
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground
— Britain capitulation
For the second time in a century, Paris burns
— France capitulation
By Iron and Blood Germany was born, and by Iron and Blood she shall die
— Germany capitulation
To this wonderful page in our country's history another more tragedy still will be added
— Italy capitulation
The winds of winter brought with them the stench of death
— Russia capitulation
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
— United Commonwealth capitulation
The Sick Man took one last breath and fell silent
— Turkey capitulation
Negaraku, Tanah tumpahnya darahku
— Malaya victory
Negaraku Sehati Sejiwa
— Malaya capitulated
Without pain, we wouldn't know joy.
— Revolutionary Arabia capitulation
A Desert fired a gun, now that gun is in the sand.
— Holy Army of Arabia capitulation
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man
— Hungary capitulation
The dream of Yugoslavia dies, perhaps this time forever
— Serbia capitulation
Some day the sun will cease to shine, and I'll desert this lovely land of mine.
— Irish Citizens Army capitulated
Men perish but principles live
— Irish Citizens Army victory
Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.
— Filipino Insurrection capitulated
When the people reach that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, and tyranny will crumble like a house of cards
— Filipino Insurrection victory
