Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 150 | "We View more quotes about speak">speak not to man's heart," said Om, "but only to his fear. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 147 | He smiled at me. |
| 33 | 148 | "I and others have tried to leave open the gap that he might see it and fill it—and some have—but not many". |
| 33 | 149 | "What gap is this?" I asked. |
| 33 | 150 | "We speak not to man's heart," said Om, "but only to his fear. |
| 33 | 151 | We do not speak of love and courage, and loyalty and nobility—but of practice and observance and the punishment of the Priest-Kings—for if we so spoke, it would be that much harder for man to grow beyond us. |
| 33 | 152 | Thus, unknown to most members of my caste, we exist to be overcome, thus in our way pointing the way to man's greatness". |
| 33 | 153 | I looked at the Initiate for a long time, and wondered if he spoke the truth. |
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He smiled at me.
"I and others have tried to leave open the gap that he might see it and fill it—and some have—but not many".
"What gap is this?" I asked.
"We speak not to man's heart," said Om, "but only to his fear.
We do not speak of love and courage, and loyalty and nobility—but of practice and observance and the punishment of the Priest-Kings—for if we so spoke, it would be that much harder for man to grow beyond us.
Thus, unknown to most members of my caste, we exist to be overcome, thus in our way pointing the way to man's greatness".
I looked at the Initiate for a long time, and wondered if he spoke the truth.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)