Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 1079 | They View more quotes about live">live in a world in which danger is not unknown. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 1076 | In particular, it tends, on the whole, to arrange social hierarchies in such a way that the society is oriented toward aggressiveness and warfare, features which tend to protect and preserve, in an almost natural harmony and balance, delicate relationships between food supplies, territories and populations. |
| 1 | 1077 | Viewed in this manner tribal warfare may be seen as an example of intraspecific aggression, with its attendant consequences in decentralizing and refining diverse populations. |
| 1 | 1078 | Too, if one regards these things as of any interest, the counting of coup and intertribal warfare lends color, excitement and zest to the lives of the red savages. |
| 1 | 1079 | They live in a world in which danger is not unknown. |
| 1 | 1080 | Surely they could live otherwise, but they have not chosen to do so. |
| 1 | 1081 | They live with the stars and the winds, and the kaiila and kailiauk. |
| 1 | 1082 | They have not chosen to revere the fat-bellied, beer-drinking gods of more sedentary peoples. |
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In particular, it tends, on the whole, to arrange social hierarchies in such a way that the society is oriented toward aggressiveness and warfare, features which tend to protect and preserve, in an almost natural harmony and balance, delicate relationships between food supplies, territories and populations.
Viewed in this manner tribal warfare may be seen as an example of intraspecific aggression, with its attendant consequences in decentralizing and refining diverse populations.
Too, if one regards these things as of any interest, the counting of coup and intertribal warfare lends color, excitement and zest to the lives of the red savages.
They live in a world in which danger is not unknown.
Surely they could live otherwise, but they have not chosen to do so.
They live with the stars and the winds, and the kaiila and kailiauk.
They have not chosen to revere the fat-bellied, beer-drinking gods of more sedentary peoples.
- (Savages of Gor)