Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 98 | How could they not View more quotes about know">know of it? But perhaps they did not. |
| 1 | 99 | She does not know. |
| 1 | 100 | The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law. |
| 1 | 101 | The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such. |
| 1 | 102 | It can simply make these things come about, it seems, by pronouncing them, and then they are simply true, and that, then, is what the person is. |
| 1 | 103 | It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law. |
| 1 | 104 | It makes the person something, whether the person understands it, or knows it, or not. |
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How could they not know of it? But perhaps they did not.
She does not know.
The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
It can simply make these things come about, it seems, by pronouncing them, and then they are simply true, and that, then, is what the person is.
It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
It makes the person something, whether the person understands it, or knows it, or not.
- (Prize of Gor)