NationStates Jolt Archive

What are your national mottoes, and what do they mean?

"The World Is Yours"

-It's from Scarface. 8)

"The people get their freedom here!"

I don't know what I was thinking of when I chose a nation name "Nanakaland" and a national motto like that back in March.

Of course, if you know the story, this nation was deleted due to inactivity and brought back in November.

"Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura."

-No idea what this means :)

"What could be more fun than participating in democracy?"

'Xkeja, ligat, korona!' it means 'Tolerance, peace, prosperity'.

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"

From Shakespeare, if I'm not mistaken.

Intedum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum.

Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Not mine, but I have a Latin quote book...hehe quite useful.

"If you can't beat 'em, beat 'em harder."

--Kind of a national policy.

IT WOULDNT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
That's from Winston Churchill.

"Labor et Disciplina Excellencia est"

Work and Discipline are Excellency.

"No one is taller than the last man standing."

made it myself.



http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-12/554152/Kyle1.jpg
~Fritz

Honour Before Strength. Strength Before Honour

Ministry of Information
The People's Republic of Kiroshi

"Non Sibi Sed Patriae"

It means "Not For Self, But For Country" in Latin.

"Leave no one behind, and leave nothing standing"

Somewhat relates to Vietnam.

Hail Mary, full of grace

It cames from the Ave Maria (Hail Mary prayer). I think it is pretty self-explanatory.

For the greater good


i would gladly kill 299 people to save 300

"Might be your way but it ain't our way"

-Self-explaining showing of national sovereignity.

K‡iklôsûmi kta'ik||êtimi.-Hate leads to suffering.

A rough translation of a Star Wars quote into my conlang.

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Kûk‡xenisi n!ok‡x'osi xno-k‡xek‡emi.-The state only exists to serve itself.
"Oppose excessive military spending, yet believe in excessive spending on junk food and plastic surgery to make all your women look like LARDASSES!"-Sino, when I criticized excessive military spending.
http://www.sulucas.com/images/steatopygia.jpg
I'm male. Note the pic of attractive women.

"Efficiency! Progress! Conflict!"

Used to have freedom in there somewhere...but, well, freedom didn't win wars. :wink:

"Vae Victis." It means, "woe to the conquored". The Gallic King said it to the Romans when the Gauls sacked the city in its earliest days; the Romans made demands after their surrender, the Gauls pointed out that, being conquored, the Romans had no say in their fate. It was these words that may have sparked the preemtive policies of the Republic. After this the Romans were determined never to be conquored again, but to be conqourers, so they identified threats early and used the existance of the threats themselves as justification for their removal ("Carthage must be destroyed!" etc.).

"Intolerant of Injustice"

derived from the game final fantasy tactics

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"

--Dante's Inferno. The post was placed at the walls of the City of Dis.

Ah, Brennus as I recall. That (vae victis) was briefly our own motto, but then it occured to me that BG wasn't remotely interested in conquering anything much beyond sobriety.

Now we make do with Be seeing you, the capital has been moved to Portmeirion, and we have a new national anthem.. we stopped short of refering to one another by number, mind. Of course we tried, but comrade number 6 aka Graeme Igo gave it the ol', "I'm a free man!" and sprinting out across the beach bit and.. well now I'm on a tangent. Right.

"Nothing real can defeat us. Nothing unreal exists."

A quote from the great Dr. Buckaroo Banzai.

What are your national mottoes, and what do they mean?
Shee City: "Ignorance is not a virtue, knowledge is not a vice"
Can't remember where I saw that but it seemed apt for a science & technology-based nation.

Kitchen Garden: "Keepers of Ancient Sunlight"
KG is a society of low-tech environmentalists; the motto refers to their refusal to use fossil fuels.

SC

"Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura."

-No idea what this means :)

I was having a little trouble with this one. From what I can make out it's something along the lines of,

"To be at ease without reading is to be dead, it is like a man who is buried alive."

I took a little poetic license, but it's something like that.

"Believe. Obey. Fight. " It's from a Fascist propaganda poster in Italy in 1930's advertising the "greatness" of that Mussolini's murderous regime. I just use it 'cause it sounds cool....

"What happens here, stays here... most of the time."

It popped in my head when I was thinking of it, and I liked it. I kind of equate it to when my step-mom told me that she didn't want to know what happened when I was at college, but sometime she does find out stuff. :lol:

"To Communism's triumph, lead us on" is a line from the Hymn of the USSR - i.e. the old Soviet nation anthem. Download it off Kazaa - the Red Army Choir version. It's inspiring.

Serve the Sacred Empire above all else

It mean: "Work to death or get killed!"

Most of my mottos have been in my conlang.

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Kûk‡xenisi n!ok‡x'osi xno-k‡xek‡emi.-The state only exists to serve itself.
"Oppose excessive military spending, yet believe in excessive spending on junk food and plastic surgery to make all your women look like LARDASSES!"-Sino, when I criticized excessive military spending.
http://www.sulucas.com/images/steatopygia.jpg
I'm male. Note the pic of attractive women.

"Singularity"

The final goal of the ideology of Transhumanism, an ascension beyond humanity into a unity of all sentient beings.

"Ominum Castrum Tenemus"

It would be Latin if the grammar was right, but it's not.

Omnium means all, a Castrum is roughly 'headquarters or somewhere you control things from', and Tenemus is a plural first person posessive verb.

Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer

in german it means "one people one empire one leader"

Sounds like neonaziish.

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Kûk‡xenisi n!ok‡x'osi xno-k‡xek‡emi.-The state only exists to serve itself.
"Oppose excessive military spending, yet believe in excessive spending on junk food and plastic surgery to make all your women look like LARDASSES!"-Sino, when I criticized excessive military spending.
http://www.sulucas.com/images/steatopygia.jpg
I'm male. Note the pic of attractive women.

Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer

Alternatively...

"Ein volk, ein reich, ein cha-cha-cha"
-- 'Mexican Hitler', Doug Anthony Allstars.

What a great band they were...

SC

Tolerance Masks Toxicity

I think you all know what I mean by that. 8)

Shee City, good to find another person out there who's even heard of DAA.
"Share a pint with me Lord Shiva
As we read the Bhagavad Gita
I'll have Krisha riding shotgun
On the highway of my life"

Anyhow, Enodia's national motto is "Io Non Tu Latinum Scio". Translated, it should mean "I Know Latin and You Don't".
It is believed to be the words spoken to the defeated Mikhail von Hennessey by Baron Enodi at the signing of the Treaty of Traunstein. Von Hennessey is believed to have objected to the Latin wording of the treaty guaranteeing Enodian independence, to which the noble Baron responded in that manner.

"My country, right or wrong."

- An American patriot's quote common prior to the defilement of morality by the hippies in the 1960s.

The quote of a true patriot- meaning that one stands by his country no matter what actions the government or its general populace has taken.

"To Communism's triumph, lead us on" is a line from the Hymn of the USSR - i.e. the old Soviet nation anthem. Download it off Kazaa - the Red Army Choir version. It's inspiring.

OOC: Ivan wannabe!

Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuhrer

in german it means "one people one empire one leader"

Not so sure about the "Ein Fuehrer", but "Ein Volk, Ein Reich." is fine by me.

Mine is,

Here,Nazis are shot dead.

Well you can see my nations name for the explaination

Sounds like neonaziish.

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Kûk‡xenisi n!ok‡x'osi xno-k‡xek‡emi.-The state only exists to serve itself.
"Oppose excessive military spending, yet believe in excessive spending on junk food and plastic surgery to make all your women look like LARDASSES!"-Sino, when I criticized excessive military spending.
http://www.sulucas.com/images/steatopygia.jpg
I'm male. Note the pic of attractive women.

It was a common Nazi slogan during the times of Hitler. And thank you, for quoting my views in regards to military spending and lardass women.

"Qualitas potentia nostra."
Latin, and means "quality is our strength". Also the motto of my main nation, Barentsburg. :P

From the Finnish Air Force (http://www.ilmavoimat.fi/index_en.php).

"Well, what happened was..."


It's a joke at work. When anything goes wrong and the boss comes out mad, he always says, "Okay! What happened here?!?!" and whoever actually did something wrong always starts out, "Well, what happened was..." Get it? Haha. :lol:

"Well, what happened was..."


It's a joke at work. When anything goes wrong and the boss comes out mad, he always says, "Okay! What happened here?!?!" and whoever actually did something wrong always starts out, "Well, what happened was..." Get it? Haha. :lol:

OOC: What would be funnier is when the sh*t hits the fan and someone get his ass fired!

"Veni Vidi Vici". The words of Julius Caesar - "I came, I saw, I conquered"

"revenge is best served cold"
pretty self explanatory really,i can be a bit nihilistic sometimes and lets just say i was having a bad day..... :twisted:

Luna Amore - "An unjust peace is better than a just war." - Sun Tzu
"Oysters make you strong, unless they're French oysters."- Me

Stella Amore - "Sometimes we have cookies." - It's from a church billboard and one of the best arguements for Christianity I have ever heard.

Sole Amore - "I don't worry about survival; survival is for old people." - It's from some anime that my friend was quoting.

Terra Amore - "It's a fiendish thingy!" - George Harrison

"We're the good guys"

It's to remind me.

"Who want beef? Or, who don't want teeth?"

Self-explanatory.

"Peace through Enlightenment" 8)

fairly self-explanatory, i think

"Life is crazy, and so am I"

so you're warned 8)

"Fide et Opera"
Faith and work (NOT faith in opera). Stole it from the MacArthur side of my family.
Basically describes what my nationial policy isn't.

"D.U.M.A.S Reigns Supreme!"

D.U.M.A.S is the name of the sole party in Aooogah. They are Communists.

Ivan Hadenoff

Cultural Minister of Aooogah

"Save water - shower with a friend"

I wanted a very free, loving country. It fit so well.

"Save water - shower with a friend"

I wanted a very free, loving country. It fit so well.

:lol:

Some of them.

Scientia est di Majoribus Vox - Knowledge is the Greatest Power roughly anyway.

War is natural, Peace is Not

You have ten seconds to comply

Be happy while youre living, for youre a long time dead.

sorry, only just spotted this one! x2 post

"Ominum Castrum Tenemus"

It would be Latin if the grammar was right, but it's not.

Omnium means all, a Castrum is roughly 'headquarters or somewhere you control things from', and Tenemus is a plural first person posessive verb.

Wow...alright...Tenemus means "to have" so I'll trust you on your to other worlds..."We have all headquarters?"

"Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura."

-No idea what this means :)

I was having a little trouble with this one. From what I can make out it's something along the lines of,

"To be at ease without reading is to be dead, it is like a man who is buried alive."

I took a little poetic license, but it's something like that.

Aha...I found it...(shame on me, I take Latin I...:))

"Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man."

Nice translation Equites Templi.

"Uh-oh... it's seeping in!"

-Homer Simpson in response to a mysterious inside-out fog seeping in through Bart's window during a Treehouse of Horror episode.

"Golden Bears and Mustangs, oh my!"

Reference to the University of California at Berkeley which I attend (mascot = Golden Bears) and the University of Western Ontario which my girlfriend attends.

"Jesus Doesn't Love Me, He Just Uses Me For Sex"

rather inspired isn't it?

"Remember Milne Bay!!!!!!!"

Milne Bay was the first EVER land defeat of the Japanese Army during the Second World War. And Best of all, it was done by Australians!!!!! :D

"Looking for a great escape?Come here and try to get out"

Self explanatory but i like it!!! :D

Always yeld to temptation; because it may be your last chance. :twisted:

"I'm always right, you're always wrong. Pay me $10000000"

I just chose this motto because it suits my dictatorship.

"Ominum Castrum Tenemus"

It would be Latin if the grammar was right, but it's not.

Omnium means all, a Castrum is roughly 'headquarters or somewhere you control things from', and Tenemus is a plural first person posessive verb.

Wow...alright...Tenemus means "to have" so I'll trust you on your to other worlds..."We have all headquarters?"

Well, Castrum is singular not plural (which is why I said the grammar was wrong), and think of Tenemus as indicating ownership of someone else's property, and you'll work out the comic effect I was aiming for :-)

"Dormio Ergo Sum" - I sleep, therefore I am

A play on the Descartes premise "Cogito Ergo Sum" (I think, therefore I am). Hatchibombitarians are a lazy bunch....

I adore my nation's motto - "Freedom Reigns! except where it's important..."

Just one more part of my humorously ironic nation... The Free Councilate of Unfree People ;)

"My country, right or wrong."

- An American patriot's quote common prior to the defilement of morality by the hippies in the 1960s.

The quote of a true patriot- meaning that one stands by his country no matter what actions the government or its general populace has taken.

Is there anyone out there that still has faith in "My country, right or wrong."?

"My country, right or wrong."

- An American patriot's quote common prior to the defilement of morality by the hippies in the 1960s.

The quote of a true patriot- meaning that one stands by his country no matter what actions the government or its general populace has taken.

Is there anyone out there that still has faith in "My country, right or wrong."?

"My country, right or wrong."

- An American patriot's quote common prior to the defilement of morality by the hippies in the 1960s.

The quote of a true patriot- meaning that one stands by his country no matter what actions the government or its general populace has taken.

Is there anyone out there that still has faith in "My country, right or wrong."?

'waste not, want not'

-motto of the Phyrexian newt priests. Great life philosophy and easy to remember. LIVE BY IT!

Individuality is Overrated :twisted:

-Lord Vescinus Maximus Glebula

"Ominum Castrum Tenemus"

It would be Latin if the grammar was right, but it's not.

Omnium means all, a Castrum is roughly 'headquarters or somewhere you control things from', and Tenemus is a plural first person posessive verb.
Is it : "All your bases are belong to us!" in latin? :lol:

yes :-)

Santo Hermando's motto goes simply as this:

"Welcome to the new cradle of socialism!"


Yes, a new cradle of socialism in the southern pacific.

Shee City, good to find another person out there who's even heard of DAA.
Missed a chance to see them in Manchester years ago and have kicked myself ever since.

Anyhow, Enodia's national motto is "Io Non Tu Latinum Scio". Translated, it should mean "I Know Latin and You Don't".

Do you know the Latin for "If you can read this, you're over-educated"? Came across it once but can't remember it :)

SC

"No whining, only working"
Basically, I don't tolerate strikes unless there is a valid reason.

"For Duty and Humanity."

It's from the Three Stooges episode "Men in Black".

"K.I.S.S."

(Keep It Simple, Stoopid)

-Cultural Affairs Minister of Esselldee

"Sure, we're oppressive, but we hate Nazis."

Heh, I made that one up myself :P

"Sure, we're oppressive, but we hate Nazis."

Heh, I made that one up myself :P

"You run, you fall, YOU DIE."

---Self explanatory.

Mine is, simply, "All in"

It suggest that our entire population has a mutual beleif that if something is worth pursuing, pursue it for all it's worth. It derives from a poker term, all in. Betting all your chips on your currect hand.

Hmm... maybe I'll finally find a use for my 3.5 years of Latin. The Latin for "if you can read this, you're over-educated" would be something along the lines of "si legere hoc posses, nimis eruditus es" I can't swear that that's completely grammatically correct, but I think it's right.

Also, omnium castrum tenemus, which, with correct grammar, would be "Omnia castra tenemus", does not mean "all your base are belong to us", but rather "we have all bases." AYBABTU would be "Omnis tuus castra sunt inesse nobis," which is coincidentally, my motto.

Liberty, Justice and Respect

It kinda fits my nation.
I've got great freedom of speech and civil rights, even though my economy is a powerhouse.

"Ta smilet vëk dit feis" Hatish for "Wipe that smile off your face".
Smiling doesn't encourage hard labour...
The most fitting flag:
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/hata-alla.jpg

"That's right, shop smart. Shop S-Mart."

It's from the movie Army of Darkness.

Hmm... maybe I'll finally find a use for my 3.5 years of Latin. The Latin for "if you can read this, you're over-educated" would be something along the lines of "si legere hoc posses, nimis eruditus es" I can't swear that that's completely grammatically correct, but I think it's right.

Thanks - it looks about right. You either did more with your 3.5 years of Latin than I did, or mine was longer ago :)

SC

Oh Dark Cow, we salute you
We prise you, we'll die for you!

Oh Dark Cow, we honor you
We sacrifice oursevles for you!

We are insignificant compared to you,
We need you, to light our way!

Oh Dark Cow, Ruler of the seas,
Ruler of the Sky and Earth!

Oh Dark Cow, help us humans,
Show us mercy, show us compassion!

No! Punish us! Rule over us!
Show us no mercy! We don't deserve it!

We are all in your debt,
Lead us to victory! Hail Dark Cow!

"whip it"

-one of DEVOs most devolutionary anthems,

Had problems deciding, cause the band has so many fitting titles to choose from, like: "freedom of choice", "beautyful world (for you not me)", "jocko homo", "mongoloid", "we re all devo", "mr DNA", "working in the coalmine", "postpostmodern man", "duty now for the future", jerking back and forth", "peekaboo"

My national motto is "Hehehe. It's PLAY time!" As it was something Quacker Jack would always say on DW's show. :mrgreen:

who s quacker jack?

oh.

almost forgot: Devo made the soundtrack to "Revenge of the nerd"

who s quacker jack?

One of my favorite cartoon characters. Look at my flag, it's a (not so good) picture of him.

and what s dw show?

and what s dw show?

Darkwing as in Darkwing Duck the cartoon show. DW was the nick name Lauchpad used to call him.

ours is extracted from our pledge of alligence:

"i pledge alligence to the flag of the world of lananara
and to the way of life for which it stands
the limitless diversity of an infinite universe
with freedom from both stress and mundaneness
for all"

=^^=
.../\...

Current motto:
"We put the 'fun' in 'funeral'."
Can't remember where I got this from.

Motto I usually have:
"In Mike we trust. All others are shot."
Made it up, based on "In God we trust" which is on some US coin, I think.

Also, omnium castrum tenemus, which, with correct grammar, would be "Omnia castra tenemus", does not mean "all your base are belong to us", but rather "we have all bases." AYBABTU would be "Omnis tuus castra sunt inesse nobis," which is coincidentally, my motto.

I stand corrected!

'Who Dares Wins'
Special Air Service motto, British Army.

'De Oppressor Liber'
To Liberate from Oppression
United States of America Army Special Forces

"You've dropped your rock."

~Braveheart :roll:

:!: "If you're talking... you're wrong!" :!:

my friend Billy was at this thing and nobody would shut upo and listen to the speaker.... so he said that over the micraphone and then everybody shut up.... so I liked it... lol! :lol:

Io Non Tu Latinum Scio

io it's italian, in english it's I, in latin it's EGO

"Ego scio"->"io so"->"I know"

If you can't kill it - marry it and make it miserable!

Something my Ex husband taught me :)

What are your national mottoes, and what do they mean?

The national motto of Calumnia is "Er.. Wot ?" because that's what the official keeper of the Motto said when the governor-general asked him to make a motto for the new country. What it means, I suppose, is that you shouldn't be dreaming when the governor-general asks you what the country's motto is.

Flashtopia's motto is currently "Welcome to Flashtopia and welcome to Paradise."

I'm only using this because Flashtopia's category is Capitalist Paradise, I'll change it when that changes too :)

Veritas Vincit Omnia

Truth conquers all

My family motto... I'd love to meet the ancestor who chose it.

The people of my small nation are very proud of their national animal - the weasel and their ever-so slightly declining monies - the Glaflugal. Thus we created a motto fit for a Ledehosenvillian:

"May the Glaflugal be plentiful and the weasels run free!"

Novus Ordo Seclorum

A New Secular Order