Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 682 | More broadly, View more quotes about order">order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 679 | Phoebe's zeal to see an errant slave punished, and suitably, was a quite natural one, of course. |
| 8 | 680 | The girl was a slave, and had not been pleasing. |
| 8 | 681 | Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished. |
| 8 | 682 | More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions. |
| 8 | 683 | A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. |
| 8 | 684 | A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration. |
| 8 | 685 | Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword. |
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Phoebe's zeal to see an errant slave punished, and suitably, was a quite natural one, of course.
The girl was a slave, and had not been pleasing.
Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished.
More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions.
A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently.
A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration.
Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword.
- (Magicians of Gor)