Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 75 | The only View more quotes about practical">practical answer to these dilemmas is not continued suppression and censorship, but a society, a world, in which nature is freed to thrive. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 72 | A man may be taught to prize his own castration but somewhere, sometime, in the individual or in the maddened collectivity, nature must strike back. |
| 3 | 73 | The answer of the fool is the answer he has been taught to give, the answer he must continue to defend and beyond which he cannot see, an answer historically deriving from an ethos founded on the macabre superstitions and frustrated perversions of lunatics, an answer now co-opted to serve the interests of new, grotesque minorities who, repudiating the only rationale that gave it plausibility, pervert it to their own ends. |
| 3 | 74 | The sludge of Puritanism, with its latent social power, bequeathed from one generation to the next, can serve unaccustomed masters. |
| 3 | 75 | The only practical answer to these dilemmas is not continued suppression and censorship, but a society, a world, in which nature is freed to thrive. |
| 3 | 76 | It is not a healthy world in which civilization is nature's prison. |
| 3 | 77 | Nature and civilization are not incompatible. |
| 3 | 78 | A choice need not be made between them. |
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A man may be taught to prize his own castration but somewhere, sometime, in the individual or in the maddened collectivity, nature must strike back.
The answer of the fool is the answer he has been taught to give, the answer he must continue to defend and beyond which he cannot see, an answer historically deriving from an ethos founded on the macabre superstitions and frustrated perversions of lunatics, an answer now co-opted to serve the interests of new, grotesque minorities who, repudiating the only rationale that gave it plausibility, pervert it to their own ends.
The sludge of Puritanism, with its latent social power, bequeathed from one generation to the next, can serve unaccustomed masters.
The only practical answer to these dilemmas is not continued suppression and censorship, but a society, a world, in which nature is freed to thrive.
It is not a healthy world in which civilization is nature's prison.
Nature and civilization are not incompatible.
A choice need not be made between them.
- (Savages of Gor)