Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 67 | It is an interesting View more quotes about question">question, the relation between natural values and conditioned values. |
 |
Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 64 | What a world of difference it might make to their relationships, I speculated. |
| 3 | 65 | Yet this admission, nonverbally, was surely made, and even poignantly and desperately, by many women of my old world, despite the injunctions and conditionings against honesty in such matters enjoined by an antibiological, politicized society. |
| 3 | 66 | I hoped that upon occasion, at least, these admissions, these declarations, these cries for recognition and fulfillment, whether verbal or nonverbal, might, in his kindness, be heeded by a male. |
| 3 | 67 | It is an interesting question, the relation between natural values and conditioned values. |
| 3 | 68 | To be sure, the human infant, in many respects, seems to be little more than a tabula rasa, a blank tablet, on which a society, whether sensible or perverted, may inscribe its values. |
| 3 | 69 | Yet the infant is also an animal, with its nature and genetic codings, with its heritage of eons of life and evolution, tracing itself back to the combinations of molecules and the births of stars. |
| 3 | 70 | Thus can be erected conflicts between nature and artifice, whether the artifices be devised or blind. |
|
What a world of difference it might make to their relationships, I speculated.
Yet this admission, nonverbally, was surely made, and even poignantly and desperately, by many women of my old world, despite the injunctions and conditionings against honesty in such matters enjoined by an antibiological, politicized society.
I hoped that upon occasion, at least, these admissions, these declarations, these cries for recognition and fulfillment, whether verbal or nonverbal, might, in his kindness, be heeded by a male.
It is an interesting question, the relation between natural values and conditioned values.
To be sure, the human infant, in many respects, seems to be little more than a tabula rasa, a blank tablet, on which a society, whether sensible or perverted, may inscribe its values.
Yet the infant is also an animal, with its nature and genetic codings, with its heritage of eons of life and evolution, tracing itself back to the combinations of molecules and the births of stars.
Thus can be erected conflicts between nature and artifice, whether the artifices be devised or blind.
- (Savages of Gor)