Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 552 | We View more quotes about never">never knew, we never meant this, they cry. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 549 | But there are many possibilities, many motivations, many explanations. |
| 8 | 550 | Untested, rootless madness is restless and inventive. |
| 8 | 551 | What is there to constrain it except eventually the hideous consequences of its own success, with all the horror that that entails. |
| 8 | 552 | We never knew, we never meant this, they cry. |
| 8 | 553 | We are blameless, we meant well! What these individuals seem to have in common, other than an interesting certitude as to their own moral superiority, a feature they share with all fanatics, is an inability, or an unwillingness, to understand the nature of men and history. |
| 8 | 554 | What are men like, truly; what is the world like, truly? It would be helpful if they looked into such matters, and gave them thought. |
| 8 | 555 | They see only what they think is before their eyes and adamantly refuse to consider either the general impact of their views or their inevitable spawn in the future, stagnation, imprisonment, mediocrity, misery, poverty and death". |
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But there are many possibilities, many motivations, many explanations.
Untested, rootless madness is restless and inventive.
What is there to constrain it except eventually the hideous consequences of its own success, with all the horror that that entails.
We never knew, we never meant this, they cry.
We are blameless, we meant well! What these individuals seem to have in common, other than an interesting certitude as to their own moral superiority, a feature they share with all fanatics, is an inability, or an unwillingness, to understand the nature of men and history.
What are men like, truly; what is the world like, truly? It would be helpful if they looked into such matters, and gave them thought.
They see only what they think is before their eyes and adamantly refuse to consider either the general impact of their views or their inevitable spawn in the future, stagnation, imprisonment, mediocrity, misery, poverty and death".
- (Magicians of Gor)