Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 67 | Such units are, after all, View more quotes about difficult">difficult to control. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 64 | A good deal of the sensitive work in Ar, work which might possibly produce resentment, or even enflame resistance, was accorded to auxiliary guardsmen. |
| 9 | 65 | Their actions, if necessary, could always be deplored or disavowed. |
| 9 | 66 | If necessary, some units might even be disbanded, as a token of conciliation. |
| 9 | 67 | Such units are, after all, difficult to control. |
| 9 | 68 | In this I saw further evidence of attention on the part of Myron, or his advisors, to the principles and practices of Dietrich of Tarnburg. |
| 9 | 69 | A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and merciless force. |
| 9 | 70 | This force then may later be disbanded, or even destroyed, to the delight of the other citizens, who then will see their conqueror as their protector, not even understanding his use of, and sacrifice of, such instrumentalities as the duped dregs of their own community, first making use of them, then disposing of them. |
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A good deal of the sensitive work in Ar, work which might possibly produce resentment, or even enflame resistance, was accorded to auxiliary guardsmen.
Their actions, if necessary, could always be deplored or disavowed.
If necessary, some units might even be disbanded, as a token of conciliation.
Such units are, after all, difficult to control.
In this I saw further evidence of attention on the part of Myron, or his advisors, to the principles and practices of Dietrich of Tarnburg.
A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and merciless force.
This force then may later be disbanded, or even destroyed, to the delight of the other citizens, who then will see their conqueror as their protector, not even understanding his use of, and sacrifice of, such instrumentalities as the duped dregs of their own community, first making use of them, then disposing of them.
- (Magicians of Gor)