Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 977 | Many View more quotes about things">things, as is well known, are the products of human action but not of human design. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 974 | In the human condition sexuality is radically central, and the machine has no need of innate sexuality. |
| 25 | 975 | To it sexuality is irrelevant and nonfunctional. |
| 25 | 976 | It utilizes sexuality only to produce tenders of machines, mechanics, and repairmen, its own servants and slaves, thinking themselves free, while obeying the compulsions of process. |
| 25 | 977 | Many things, as is well known, are the products of human action but not of human design. |
| 25 | 978 | And these may be benign and salutary, but, too, they need not be so. |
| 25 | 979 | And it is ironic that human action could mindlessly construct prisons that no rational being would willingly design. |
| 25 | 980 | It is within its own walls, walls built without conscious intent, that the human spirit is most hopelessly confined. |
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In the human condition sexuality is radically central, and the machine has no need of innate sexuality.
To it sexuality is irrelevant and nonfunctional.
It utilizes sexuality only to produce tenders of machines, mechanics, and repairmen, its own servants and slaves, thinking themselves free, while obeying the compulsions of process.
Many things, as is well known, are the products of human action but not of human design.
And these may be benign and salutary, but, too, they need not be so.
And it is ironic that human action could mindlessly construct prisons that no rational being would willingly design.
It is within its own walls, walls built without conscious intent, that the human spirit is most hopelessly confined.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)